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Originally Posted by miraja2

I tried to read this entire post....but I kept falling asleep.
I will assume that it was just a long-winded apology for giving out TERRIBLE "information" on Street Sense after the Tampa Bay Derby.

There is a horse named Top This and That that ran 5th in his debut in a $62,500 Miaden claiming race. I liked the way the horse ran, so we made the people an offer for the horse. They accepted the offer and the deal was done, pending the horse passing our vet. Our vet examined the horse and took some x-rays. He told us that the horse was a mess and that the horse would never last. The horse had a bad knee and had a bad chip in a hock. So we didn't end up buying the horse.

The horse has run 21 times since then and has made around $300,000 or so. That doesn't mean that the vet gave us "terrible information". You're not going to be right all the time about predicting which horses will last and which horses won't. All you can do is make an educated guess.

So I think it's ridiculous to give Kentuckyrosesinmay a hard time for thinking that Street Sense would not be around come Derby time. This game is very humbling and even the veterinarians are wrong all the time. To give you another example, a friend of mine owned a horse and the vet told him that the horse was very unsound and would never make it to the races. So my friend ended up selling the horse cheap. Not only did the horse make it to the races, but the horse has run 27 times and is stakes placed. Nobody is going to be right all the time.

Anyway, Jessica ended up picking Street Sense to win the Derby. I think that more than makes for her thinking that the horse would not make the race a couple of months ago. She saw that Nafzger had the horse going good again and she picked the horse to win the race.