PON ran a good race. He beat everyone else in the field and would have won had it not been for a seemingly unexplainable turn of foot from a horse who improved more from his last couple than most people have ever seen any horse improve.
Why is it Dunkirk and Friesan Fires get free passes for running like crap and a horse like PON actually competes and is in the race call, but yet is quickly dissed as running to his complete and utter medicority? And to say Quality Road or I want Revenge would have won this race if they made the gate is quite a stretch, dont you think? On what basis would they have automatically won this race? Both have been very good in their last pair, but overwhelmingly good enough to be declared winners of the hardest race to win? I am a huge Quality Road fan, but lets be real. What made every horse in the race look like a drunken sailor coming down the stretch would not have affected Quality Road or I want Revenge in the same way?
Who's running in the Preakness besides the obvious first 2 finishers?