Notional waqs wonderful today Rand.. Did all O'Neill would want... Grew up a lot. Sat off while outside; moved when asked and fought for lead; looked collared and stayed on between horses before drawing off to win by a couple.
Circular Quay was down inside and marooned. Nowhere to go at the top of the stretch. As is always the problem with horses like him... Bill Kaplan's "W&CGuy" ran very nicely chasing wide and coming on late. Zanjero third but I never really "saw" what he was doing...
Don't know how far Notional wants to stretch, but he's a quality colt and all the way back to his insanely huge debut now...
O'Neill-Reddam and Bill Kaplan... 30% of the Derby field between them? Possible...
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