How to ruin a horse: Jamie Sanders Edition

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Originally Posted by horseofcourse

Is the Southwest Stakes a race scenario that will ever be duplicated on dirt?? I'm just sick of the absolute bashing of Sanders on here. The horse is 1-1 against Hard Spun and has a 1st, 2 3rds and a 4th in 4 major preps this year and the 4th was less than a half length back. This horse is better than Sedgefield, Bwana Bull, Xchanger, Cobalt Blue, Liquidity, Storm in May, off the top of my head. Is distance a question...of course it is. I can name about 18 horses that that question applies to however. The bashing of Sanders is nonsensical at best.

I don't think anyone here is questioning that he is a solid horse at a mile. No one thinks he has any business going onto the Derby and the idea that he might go to the Woodford Reserve is laughable. He may be better than those horses but they all have more graded earnings than him. If those trainers were 2 for 86 on the year and talking about running in the Woodford Reserve if they got shut out of the Derby then they'd be getting the same treatment.