LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- Bob Baffert doesn't expect the Belmont Stakes to be a piece of cake for Sliver Charm, but then again he didn't think winning the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness would be easy, either.

And when the Belmont Stakes is over on June 7, the trainer believes his gray colt will have the entire Triple Crown pie.

"Unless there is a horse in there that has super powers, I can't see him getting beat in the Belmont," Baffert said. "He's still going to have to run. They're not going to serve it to him on a platter, but it won't be as hard for him as the Preakness."

THE KENTUCKY DERBY AND PREAKNESS winner, bidding to become only the 12th Triple Crown winner, worked Wednesday at Churchill Downs.

Afterward, Baffert called owner Bob Lewis and said, "Well, Bob, he doesn't look like a million, he looks like 5 million."

Should Silver Charm win the Belmont he would get a $5 million bonus. It still is to be determined if the bonus, awarded by Visa, the Triple Crown sponsor, will be the difference between the total winning share of the three races and $5 million or if it will be $5 million besides the winner's shares.

Silver Charm will have his final work Monday or Tuesday and then be shipped to Belmont Park on Wednesday, Baffert said in a conference call from Louisville.

The colt's late arrival in New York is to avoid Triple Crown fanfare.

"He won't be there too long to get stirred up to much," Baffert said.

THE COLT WENT BACK TO Churchill Downs, where he won the Derby, after winning he Preakness at Pimlico in Baltimore because, Baffert said, "I just wanted him to train on this surface because it's pretty kind. They keep it pretty consistent."

Baffert clocked Silver Charm in 1:27 2-5 seconds for seven-eighths of a mile Wednesday. The official clockers had the colt working three-quarters of mile in 1:14 4-5 and caught him galloping out seven-eighths in 1:27 3-5.

"He took off in 13 (seconds for the first eighth-mile) and so it was more like a three-quarters work," Baffert said. "He finished up real good and was happy. Things are going just so smoothly I can't believe it.

"He enjoys his work. My job is to keep him happy. His class and his heart will take him the rest of the way."

BAFFERT THINKS SILVER CHARM'S neck win over Captain Bodgit in the 1-mile Derby on May 3 was his best race. "In the Preakness (1 3-16 miles) he ran good enough to win, but he had to do that on his own."

Baffert, noting the two weeks between the toughness of the Derby and the demands of the Preakness, said he could not train the colt hard for the second leg of the Triple Crown. The three weeks between the Preakness and 11/2-mile Belmont allows for harder training.

It appears there will be a least eight 3-year-olds entered in the Belmont. Three of them are Free House, third in the Derby and second in the Preakness; Crypto Star, fifth in the Derby; and Touch Gold, fourth in the Preakness.