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Originally Posted by Cardus
Though there are numerous Dual Qualifiers -- which adds the "Experimental Handicap", a ridiculous media exercise -- the following Kentucky Derby winners were not favored to win (since 1970, with DI in parentheses):
Genuine Risk (2.57)
Gato Del Sol (1.77)
Ferdinand (1.50)
Alysheba (3.80)
Unbridled (1.12)
Sea Hero (1.12)
Go For Gin (1.00)
Thunder Gulch (4.00)
While there were various reasons for them not to be favored, they still won, and had low Dosage Indices. There are plenty of other horses who rounded out the exotics at big prices who had a inherent ability to get the classic distances.
So, yes, I think it was once alive. Perhaps it is no longer relevant, but to say that it was never alive is inaccurate.
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Are these #'s AS OF the Derby, or right now?
The Dosage is about as ridiculous as the guy who told me Funny Cide couldn't win the Derby "because he was a New York Bred"