I drank the Kool-aide lastyear

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Originally Posted by Zippy Chippy

I agree. The hype around Big Brown reminds of of the talk about Curlin last year. "He's a monster horse" everybody said. "Forget that he only has three starts-- he's a monster." Well, Curlin IS a monster, but he was still too green to pull off a Derby victory. If a monster like Curlin couldn't pull it off, why should I believe that Big Brown can do it?

Different year.
There isn't another horse in the same zip code as Hard SPun or Street Sense in this race. His opponents are no nowhere near what Curlin faced last year. Big Brown is definitely the champ on paper this year.

I'm still not sold on him to win this race, but I certainly won't fault people that use him as a key horse on their tickets.