Enjoy

[Calzone Lord]

Maybe I wasn't paying enough attention -- but I don't remember anyone villifying Stay Thirsty any more than the rest of this 3yo crop as a whole. It was one upset after another and one moderate winner after another. The most dizzying such first half to a 3yo season in memory.

Stay Thirsty was a pretty solid 2yo (his no excuse BC Juvie drubbing was in a supersonic fast race -- and the overwhelmingly dominant top two -- Uncle Mo and Boys At Tosc -- have been subsquent cripples.)

Just a case of a good 2yo, with a good 2yo foundation, who has stayed healthy and developed in the second half of the season after a slow return from the layoff.

Stay Thirsty almost denied Ruler On Ice a Classic win and he has successfully kept Moonshine Mullin from a Jim Dandy score and Rattlesnake Bridge and JW Blue from a Travers exacta.

Anyway -- the reason I loved the column so much is that it would have read like an Indian Charlie post had Uncle Mo won the King's Bishop. Stuff about liking a horse at age 2, stuff about pedigree, stuff about losing interest in the game, and stuff about thanking a horse for restoring it back.