hey str
don't have the pp's right in front of me but if you are coming into the travers with the belmont as your prior race isn't it an advantage to have been within a length at the quarter pole ,open up a few lengths to the stretch call and then give up a couple to the wire (arcangelo) ..compare this to running mid/close early and win or lose by about 2-3 lengths
being that close at the 10f mark and opening up (especially that) a few lengths from there i would think is a conditioning edge considering the cutback in distance..do you agree that even off an approximate 2.5 month layoff doing that in the belmont is going to carryover to the travers if it's your next race