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Originally Posted by saratoga guy
That he was supplemented to the Preakness and went off at 5-1 in the Peter Pan are both interesting -- but the results of the races he ran in are more interesting. He finished third in the Peter Pan and the Long Branch -- both before the back-to-back efforts [the Long Branch was the first of those].
Hardly super exciting.
And the horse that won that year's Peter Pan? Oratory -- never ran again after suffering a broken bone in a subsequent workout. Only five career starts and none spaced closer than 22 days. I'd call him a real up-and-comer -- but what do we blame his subsequent non-career on?
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Was he a superstar, no. However, Coin Silver did win a Grade II, and Golden Man also beat Frankel's subqesuent SW High Limit in one of the back-to-back stakes. By the fall of the same year in which he supplemented to the Preakness, Dutrow had him back in for $40,000 claimers. Dutrow runs a lot of horses back on short rest, and it invariably seems to take a lot out of them.