Stay Put 2010 Belmont Stakes Odds: Although Stay Put is clearly not one of the favorites for the 2010 Belmont Stakes, owners Richard, Bertram, and Elaine Klein are still willing to chance it. Go to BODOG.com to get all of the current betting odds on all of your Belmont Stakes favorites.
20 to 1 odds Stay Put will be coming into the Triple Crown for the first time. Trainer Steve Margolis could have opted to stay out of the 2010 Belmont Stakes all together but was urged by the owners to put the colt in the last leg of the Triple Crown. Jockey Jamie Theriot who is no stranger to Stay Put will be riding the horse out of post position 10.
“We could have stayed home and run in the Northern Dancer Stakes on Stephen Foster (gr. I) Day and been the favorite, but the Kleins have been breeding horses for a long time, and they’ve yet to run one in a classic race,” trainer Steve Margolis said. “They like way he’s trained, and it is worth taking a shot.” “You can only train them so much. He galloped almost two miles today but he’s been running on a pretty regular basis. He definitely will go long. He’s coming off a win…he’s a three-time winner this year (since Dec. 7) which is good at this time of year. There are other stakes around, but we felt he’s worthy of taking a chance.”
Stay Put has brought in three 1st place finishes since December of 2009. His last race resulted in one of those 1st place finishes in the Allow but some critics are saying that this horse just doesn’t have the quality to win such a race as the Belmont Stakes.
“You hear the stuff – ‘the jockey never rode here,’ but he knows the horse,” Margolis said. “And that’s more of a factor with us because he has ridden the horse almost every time and the horse does respond for him. I don’t think he’ll be out the backdoor or anything but he could be placed where he needs to be. Stay Put does like to break and then kind of collect himself…and then start picking it up after that.”
Online racebook BODOG.com has posted horse racing betting odds to win the 2010 Belmont Stakes:
Dave In Dixie 20/1
Drosselmeyer 15/1
First Dude 4/1
Fly Down 5/1
Game On Dude 10/1
Ice Box 5/2
Interactif 10/1
Make Music For Me 10/1
Spangled Star 25/1
Stately Victor 10/1
Stay Put 20/1
Uptowncharlybrown 12/1
