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Originally Posted by The Indomitable DrugS
Link me to where Bluegrass Cat was the Derby favorite on Jan 1st 2006 at?
Stevie Wonderboy was still in training at that time, off of his record figure win in the Breeders Cup Juvenile. I felt Bluegrass was a highly overrated 2yo myself...but I can't ever remember him being a future book favorite, or a consensus #1 choice. He was something like 40/1 come raceday....albeit off of two mediocre races.
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In Vegas, he was the future book favorite as soon as Stevie W got hurt (I guess that was in the first Cal race of the year for 3YO's, so not TECHNICALLY Jan 1.) About 10-1ish at the time.
(actually he ran 3 times at 3, won the Sam Davis with about a 103 Beyer, 2nd in the Tampa Derby with a 104, and bombed as the favorite in the Blue Grass on the ridiculous old Keeneland surface.)