Circular Quay the 2007 Kentucky Derby winner

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Originally Posted by pgardn

Thats what I think was funny after the Derby. The wet track thing popped up, and then the Preakness field was crushed. Good Lord look what the animal did at Belmont. He got pushed hard by two diff. very good horses and still barely went down. Smarty ran on any dirt you gave him.

CQ is gonna need a Giacomo set up and I dont see that happening for a while. Some lessons were learned in that burn up that have not had time to become a passing memories.

Every year there is a large majority of people that begin questioning the derby winner's worth as a racehorse.

It always starts with "who did he really beat?" And then is attributed to pace factors, track bias, other horses being sore/too tired/too used up in preps, etc....

This will continue as long as the derby is conducted. It happens in England too. "Epsom Derby field considered weakest in 10 years, etc..."

Crazy stuff. Smarty Jones beat the pants off of every horse he faced but one. And he was beat fair and square that day. The connections knew the Belmont was 1 1/2 miles, and he was beaten because there was a better horse at that distance on that particular day. End of story in my opinion.

Birdstone beat him.

Regardless of what Rock Hard Ten or Eddington did in the race.

But that ****er Smarty Jones sure did beat every one else like a drum, and looked good doing it.