Calvin Borel continues to make the CD toteboard explode

[The Indomitable DrugS]

It will be.

It's long been a staple of my betting strategy to try and beat a favorite like Street Sense, a horse who has never run, what I believe, was a particularly strong race without the aid of a perfect trip...and doesn't appear certain to get that perfect trip again.

I understand that he's a very lukewarm favorite at 9/2, but, it's just against my nature to take a horse like him.

He hung in each of his three route races when he wasn't able to get the patented Borel rail trip---albeit two came over polytrack, and one came over an off-track.

I can understand why people would bet him, against that group, even at 9/2 odds...and I won't be shocked if he wins without his trip...but, he's just the kind of horse I want to avoid on the win end.

His mother won in her only career start over an off-track, and he's certainly bred to handle mud---so maybe he's a much improved horse since that loss in Chicago at two. We shall see.