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Originally Posted by saratoga guy
I think you're overstating the case.
Dutrow claimed Golden Man in Jan 2005 for $60K. The previous September the horse was running for $12.5K.
Subsequent to the claim the horse won a NW1 and then was an OK -- albeit distant (12 lengths) -- third in the Peter Pan.
Then he ran his back-to-back races.
So it's kind of hard to make the argument that he was a real up-and-comer in the 3YO ranks that summer.
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Actually, he caught my attention that year because we owned a Suave Prospect that we had privately purchased from Farnsworth Farms. They had a ton of horses, so the tag he ran for was kind of irrelevant. They ran Imperialism for $25K as a 2YO.
In Golden Man's first race off the claim, he won a NW1X allowance score at Gulfstream, in very fast time. He was super impressive in that race, defeating subsequent Lexington Stakes winner Coin Silver. Then his owners at the time (Sandy Goldfarb and Michael Dubb) supplemented Golden Man to the Preakness for $100,000, but he was excluded from the race when it oversubscribed (Giacomo didn't scare anyone off). He ran third in the Peter Pan, where he was only 5-1 in the wagering. The rest, as they say, is history ...