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Originally Posted by hockey2315
I may be exaggerating slightly, but not much. . .
SNS beat nobody in the Illinois Derby, did nothing in the KY derby and then ran second in the preakness when it fell apart. . . He still gets pounded down to odds on in races where he has no chance to win- he wasn't winning the races at GP and there was NO way he was beating Master Command (who may have been favored over him in the race @ HAW). . . People still think highly of him because of all the buzz he got before the derby, and in my opinion, the hype is completely unwarranted. . . He's probably a G3 caliber horse, but come on- the race today wasn't a G3 caliber race. . . The checks SNS' connections have cashed have been in joke races like this- so your earnings argument has a flaw. . .
I won't get too in-depth about Bob and John. . . He beat terribly weak fields out west and got very luck that the Wood came up sloppy because he actually shows some semblance of talent in the slop. . . Since then he's been cashing checks in little, weak fields that don't deserve the purses or grades that they've gotten. . .
Maybe I'm being too hard on these horses. . . Part of my problem is that there are actually races out there like this one that carry graded status and big purses. . . Bob and John doesn't deserve a G3 win and his share of 388k for beating 3 other horses on a sloppy track today. . .
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Maybe what your saying is there are some stupid conections of better horses that wouldnt take a shot at the 400k purse. If this is the case who wasnt at LS that should have been?