Yeah. I think Bodemeister can and will be compared with horses like Big Brown, Bellamy Road, Curlin, and Congaree.
He's similar enough to Big Brown, Curlin, and Congaree in that he's very lightly raced and in the ball park of each on ability at this point.
However, all three of them eventually proved they didn't need the lead to run peak efforts.
Bellamy Road wasn't able to prove that in the one chance he got chasing a 21-flat type sprinter like Spanish Chestnut around while hung up wide.
Curlin got clogged up behind a lot of traffic in the Ky Derby, Big Brown destroyed a very weak field because he was able to rate, and Congaree was a great 3rd chasing a 22 and change pace with Point Given breathing down his neck and then stopping.
How well Bodemeister performs if he's 4th or 5th about 3.5 lengths off of the pace is really the question...and I think it's basically a guess-work question.
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