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Originally Posted by The Indomitable DrugS
The ride by Borel was totally epic anyway.
He had him back so far behind the next to last horse early on that even the mud kicked up probably couldn't reach him.
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Watching Calvin's interview again and thinking about what he meant reveals a few possible reasons for his gelding's success.
1) The track took the heart out of almost all of them over 10F's except his horse whom he saved til the last quarter as he was so far back after the initial half he was out of the picture but his horse hadn't started the race yet. Classic tortise and hare stuff....
2) The time, though slow, is irrelevant as this Derby was won by racing strategy not speed but stamina over a last 1/4 while MTB must have run ridiculous time for the 1/4, 1/2 and 6f's splits showing how occasionally over rated ES is on tiring tracks and poly quick sand.
3) "Fatigue makes cowards of us all" doesn't just apply to football player's
4) Calvin was right on the money when he said his was the only one running at he end......an obvious strategy the "slow minded" southern connections used to the detriment of faster smarter more expensive colts in the race.
"Intelligence is taking the same information available to everyone else and doing something different with it than most to achieve an outcome nobody else could attain"......