Preakness

[pointman]

Originally Posted by DonGuido

Why does he have to prove that he can take dirt in his face? If he can win doing what he's doing and look the same at the end of a race as he did when he started . . . nothing wrong with that and win the way he does too . . . no flies on that milk. If it ain't broke, etc, etc. He didn't even look like he broke a sweat when he finished yesterday. I don't think we've seen his best yet. Sure he had to work a little to win but . . . you have to get nit picky to down play his performance.

Don't throw the time thingy at me either. You don't run horses to set track records, you run them to win. Who cares what his time was except all the number crunchers . . . he knows where the finish line is and what he has to do to get there before anyone else and he has a good pilot on him to help make that happen.

Someone here raised the ground loss as if it was a negative. I disagree, I think he got a very good trip in the clear where he was comfortable not having dirt in his face. Incidentally the same trip that California Chrome got last year and both times that trip won with the first two years in recent memory without stretchout sprinters due to the points system. There were certainly many more worse trips in the race than the one that AP got. To suggest he is better suited for the Belmont because "he may have run a mile and half to win yesterday" is absurd to me.

Originally Posted by Rudeboyelvis

I didn't realize he had that going for him. Game Changer.