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Originally Posted by justindew
Samarta,
Any time someone who has never met me or spoken to me calls me a name, I take absolutely zero offense.
Again, while my words were chosen poorly, I did not report that Hard Spun was stabled at Churchill Downs. I said that the clocker in question had watched him train "since his arrival at Churchill." If you want to get technical, Hard Spun DID arrive at Churchill in mid-April. He just happened to leave a few hours later and head back to Keeneland. I feel people focused on this poorly-worded passage because it made it easier to dismiss what I was "reporting" in the first place, which was that a clocker told me that Hard Spun looked sore and stiff, and I would not be betting on him as a result.
I have no idea if the horse was sore or not, but he sure didn't run like it in the Derby.
Every year, there is a horse (or two) who runs a great race in defeat in the Derby. That horse then gets heavily-bet in the Preakness, but loses again. Just to name a few:
Cavonnier
Prince of Thieves
Congaree
Medaglia D' Oro
Peace Rules
Lion Heart
Closing Argument
Sweetnorthernsaint
I think Hard Spun and Curlin are in danger of joining that list this year.
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Okay, so I feel like an ass now....I apologize...
K, here's where we disagree, the story was that an expert writer for the Derby website reported on the condition of horse and when doing so didn't get his location right. That was the story...While we would all like to think that for handicapping purposes people overlooked the error, but the fact that your blog was the only report out there that would indicate he didn't look good...all other reports, accounts, phone calls, etc...said this colt was training and looked great...the only thing handicappers had to determine was whether or not, the workout took too much out of him...
Again, my apologies....
Sam