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Originally Posted by blackthroatedwind
I don't think weight matters, but that's just me and I suppose I could be wrong, but I never understood why people suggested after the race that Saint Liam was best. Commentator set an extremely honest pace and Saint Liam had the entire stretch to beat him and flat out lost.
If Dutrow was so confident he had the better horse why did he run, not one but, two rabbits in the Woodward?
And, yes, I am way biased about this one.
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I agree with you about weight being overrated although perhaps Saint Liam wins by a nose with equal weights. A major reason that Dutrow used the rabbits in the Woodward wasn't because he thought his horse couldn't beat Commentator, it was because he thought he could beat Commentator more easily with the rabbits and didn't want the race to take too much out of him before the Classic. The prior year going neck and neck with Ghostzapper took so much out of the horse that he couldn't bring him back in the Classic and he knew he wouldn't have forgiven himself if he let that happen again. He talked about it on Capital OTB one morning, interesting interview.