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Originally Posted by The Indomitable DrugS
You act like he wasn't clearly the best horse coming into the Derby - and you act like you didn't even bother to watch any of those four races you speak of - just happened to notice the final results.
He had an impossible trip in the Derby, he was MUCH better than his margin of victory in the Preakness, he was caught inside behind a slow pace in the Belmont and still answered the bell, and he had an impossible task in the Haskell racing wide off of a layoff over a track where the rail was extremely live.
If you want to pretend like that series of four races proved that he wasn't conclusively better than the rest of the 3yo males - go on.
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This is more of what was discussed a few weeks ago whereby any trip cap post mortum allows the annointing of whomever the advocate cares to advance. It's you doing the pretending by being unable to take out of the equation the post-Derby knowledge... Trot out whatever after-the-fact conclusion you want to, but Curlin wasn't "clearly the best horse coming into the Derby."
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Last edited by Kasept : 04-18-2008 at 09:58 AM.
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