I started to say, nothing sloppy about your play at the Big Easy RQ, but considering Fair Grounds was temporarily a lake, that would hardly be true. Nice play on a day that was way more formful than I expected it might be.


Back in the day when there was a pick 6 contest on the ESPN website, someone commented that tracks speed up on wet days and favor the pace setter types. That did not seem to be the case on Saturday. For a moment in the Risen Star, it looked like it might be true and then Sierra Leone put an end to that notion in dramatic fashion and I think the other two dirt stakes ended similarly with an off the pace runner catching a speedster.