Who needs Alex Rodriguez when you have Ian Kin sler? That must have been what Joe Girardi was thinking when he left A-Rod on the bench to help turn the All-Star Game into a Mid-Summer Bummer for Hondo, whose runaway deficit soared to 1,180 virdons.

Today, he’ll hop aboard Ed Fountaine’s Best Bet at Belmont: Five units to win on Position Limit — sired by George Steinbrenner’s Bellamy Road — in the fourth.

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Hondo’s also going to put a 5-unit investment on Tiger Woods (6-1) to win the British Open. It should be a romp if Tiger shows the same determination going after the Claret Jug that he did when he was chasing all those other jugs.

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