I had the good fortune to be at Belmont for the running of the Garden City (full recap here) and, as I noted, Alexander Tango looked AMAZING in the parade.

Usually the only thing I can tell you about a horse by looking at it is whether or not I think it’s cute, but she looked so ready to kick a$$. She reared up a bit in the parade and the crowd really reacted. Her run was impressive, about 4 wide and coming on strong in the stretch. I feel very lucky to seen it it live.

Here she is in the Irish 1000 Guineas Trial (Gr3). She sits nicely just off the pace and then explodes in the stretch. Again, impressive.

Perhaps the saddest part is that they were looking forward to running her next year, something we could use a lot more of around here.