He's a very mediocre horse Gander, who is trained by a less than successful trainer, who took advantage of track biases and SUBSTANTIALLY worse fields in his successful efforts. He is a newly turned 4YO who is now facing older horses for the second time. He was claimed by his current trainer from Mike Hushion and has run one successively worse race after another since that claim. Yes, he'll probably get the early lead as the even more hopelessly overmatched Cat's Lad appears to be the only other real contender for the front, but how that transfers into him beating Bookmaster or It's a Monster is beyond me.
It's not even like he's 10-1 ( which would be significantly less than his chances of winning ). Look, you like him, go ahead. I'm sure stranger things have happened. But to me this horse is very hard to make a legitimate case for. The only thing going for him is the small field and lack of depth. A bare minimum of two horses have to completely fail to show up for Oh My Stars to win.
I have now wasted WAY too much time discussing this....and as you can see my time isn't even that valuable.
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