Bits and Pieces according to ZATT

If Miss Temple City is good enough for Graham Motion to run in the Group 1 Coronation Stakes next month at Royal Ascot, just how good is the filly who cleaned her clock while making her first start of the season? We’ll happily see more from the undefeated Lady Eli Sunday at Belmont Park.

Why do so many people want to tell me that American Pharoah cannot lose the Belmont Stakes because he has already proven to be better than his competition? Maybe they think that the 13 most recent winners of the Kentucky Derby and Preakness did not come to the Belmont as tops of their crops, as well.

Remember the name Red Vine. You’ll thank me later.

If I include Mubtaahij on my tickets again, will it be a case of -- Fool me once,  shame on Moobie ... Fool me twice, shame on me?

Chuck C. Lopez will ride against his jockey sons David and Erick in a race tomorrow at Golden Gate Fields. How cool is that? Give Kendra another ten years, and if I can drop an easy 90 lbs ... we would still have zero chance of riding in the same race.

Which is better for the sport of racing; finally getting a Triple Crown winner, but then watching him retire at some point in his three-year-old season, or celebrating the King and his Cat? King Leatherbury and Ben’s Cat don’t get older, they get better.

For the 46th consecutive year, I will not be attending Royal Ascot. Shame on me!

I am rooting for Frosted and Materiality to run huge in the Belmont Stakes, because if American Pharoah then still beats them both, we may have a legitimate legend on our hands.

OK, I admit it … I actually root for Eric Guillot in a big way.