What's especially fun about Rags to Riches entering the Belmont is that the move seems to have given trainer Todd Pletcher a chance to reveal his sporting side. The horseman famous for his cool, detached ways around the track and his blandly professional pronouncements is suddenly saying things like, "She is just a good filly.... Aside from having testicles, she has it all" (Blood-Horse), and "At the end of the day, competing in the Belmont with a chance to win is more exciting than going in the Mother Goose and being 1-to-5" (Courier-Journal). Makes me wish we had the chance to see more of this Pletcher and less of TPI.

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