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Originally Posted by brianwspencer
i know you loved invasor on saturday, and i've been there with you all summer -- no surprise to me on saturday at all that he won.
i just don't think that this whole boo-hooing that everyone is doing about the rail being a "paved highway" and moaning about the CD crew souping it up is all it's cracked up to be.
only for round pond could a case be made that the rail made a difference in my opinion -- the other four are very easy to explain and all four of those clearly and quite easily refute the notion that the inside was heavily biased.
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And without the co-favorites it could have easily been argued that Round Pond has as good a chance as any in the Distaff especially if she got a good trip.
I must say it was brilliant of O'Neill to fuel the myth of the golden rail. He has a gelding with no breeding value so brings up the golden rail while talking about him which in turns gives his intact 2yo an excuse for losing so badly. If he brought it up while talking about Great Hunter it would be sour grapes. Because he brings it up while talking about his own horse benefiting from it everyone believes it.