Well, the Steve Martin angle did not work at the Belmont yesterday, but Rags to Riches won one for the ladies. Yesterday, I said no filly had won the Belmont, but obviously that was at a mile-and-a-half, which last time I checked was the distance they ran yesterday. Difficult to remember that the race was back on ABC...quit changing networks on me!

Spurred by the female influence on the day's racing, I actually watched the movie on Ruffian last night. I thought it was pretty bad. Sam Shepard played the trainer Frank Whiteley, who apparently grunts a lot while staring at the ground. Bringing down the vibe even more was Frank Whaley as the sportswriter William Nack. Why do I think Whaley's best role was when Samuel L. shot him in "Pulp Fiction" during the Big Kahuna Burger scene? At times last night, you wondered if it was the Bill Nack story instead of Ruffian. Dave Johnson acting as the race caller, well, let's just say Trevor Denman comes off much better in his commercial for that product I can't remember. At least they showed some footage of the real Ruffian over the closing credits.

It seems the lawsuit surrounding the movie was more interesting as trainer Whiteley and jockey Jacinto Vasquez did not participate in the filming. An injunction allowed the movie to be shown last night.

Meal of Links

Here is how Swiss Banks work. This is a movie staple from way back when, when the high rollers or ne'er-do-wells somehow manage to have a Swiss Bank account. My bank is NCB. Doesn't have the same ring to it.

I laughed out loud at some of these Celebrity Logo Look-Alikes. Except for that character from "It". Boo, creepy clown from "It". Hooray, beer! Jeezy creezy, that still gives me nightmares.

Where are all the bees going? Everyone's stumped.

Exercise Yard

Last night, it was Showtime's turn for boxing, as HBO had the Cotto-Judah PPV. It was kind of a yawner.

Light heavy champ "Bad" Chad Dawson ("Your circle's gotta go, Chad.") could not even get the main event in his own hometown. WTF? He destroyed Jesus Ruiz in six. Pretty good effort, lame opponent.

In the nightcap, "The Magic Man" Antonio Tarver beat Elvir "The Kosovo Kid" Mariqi in a majority decision. Listening to the broadcast, you would have thought this was an exciting fight. I placed the amount of action at about 2 minutes total out of the 36 minutes I saw. Tarver is calling out everyone after the fight. Even Mariqi was calling out everyone. Showtime seems to be slipping in their choice of bouts, back to 2004-5 level, after a pretty nice run of late.

Visitor

None, as my friend, Lewis Hamilton, won the F1 race in Montreal.