Watch for the show payoffs

[The Indomitable DrugS]

Even though War Pass towered over everything in that race on form - you have to wonder what is going through someones head when they are willing to risk large sums of money to try and make a $0.05 profit on the dollar on any horse race,

Let alone one with a horse who you knew going in was clearly very likely to be taken out of his game and given an education.

The closest thing I've ever seen to a rational bridgejumping situation was when Medaglia D' Oro raced against four other tomato cans in the Oaklawn Park Handicap. You got $0.10 on your dollar because of the rules in Arkansas - and the horse who ran 2nd in that race, Slider, had been running at Mountaineer. MDO was also an older horse who always fired - and he was trained by the most careful good horseman you'll ever see.