Brother Derek is a fraud...

[Rupert Pupkin]

Originally Posted by Cunningham Racing

True, but a good horse shows up and at least fires everytime or tries and runs respectably...that is the point I was making....to run 4th in a 5 or 6 horse field in a listed stakes event without ever seriously threatening in the race when you are a multiple garded stakes winner and have been hyped all year is not acceptable - not by anyone's measure...

Carl Lewis should be able to beat or at least run respectably against college track athletes any day of the week, right?

No, that's not true. Look at Flower Alley even last year. He got beat by 15 lengths in the Jockey Club Gold Cup. Did that race prove much? It obviously didn't prove much because he came back in his next start and ran 2nd in the BC Classic. One bad race doesn't mean much. Most great horses had a few bad races.