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Originally Posted by Calzone Lord
Yeah. Mine That Bird made a respectable bid at it.
Had Rachel Alexandra not run in the Preakness, he'd have nailed down the first two legs of the triple crown and looked a sure winner on the far turn of the Belmont Stakes.
Real Quiet, while very much a fine horse, almost had it. But he was no superstar. He had a couple of defeats at Santa Fe Downs on his 2yo form, he bombed in a race at Golden Gate at age 3, and wasn't exactly a killer older horse.
Meanwhile, Skip Away and Holy Bull both came into the triple crown as top figure in their final prep races ... and they didn't manage to win a single race in the series between them.
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Mine that Birds Derby was much better than people thought, here is the paceline
CD 05/02/2009 11 98 90 86 Mine That Bird
So it was a +12, and only a 98 on the front end, hardly anything crazy, so he started flying by horses who were not exactly stopping, the final time is also solid in compared to other derbys the past decade.