Butch Lehr on bias controversy -- Horseplayer Daily

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Originally Posted by TeddyRex

The surface really threw me off my game. However, any horse in the BC can win. Any horse. If the inside was that great, how did INVASOR win the Classic?

I think you bring up a good point about it being BC day, and many are forgetting that. BC day is the only day of the year where throwing out multiple GI winners sometimes makes sense -- GI winners running up the track is nothing new on BC day, so that argument is also pretty worthless in any discussion of bias. As if longshots running huge races and horses cracking the trifecta that shouldn't is somehow a 2006-only phenomenon