The Tin Man

[Rupert Pupkin]

Originally Posted by oracle80

Well I have to give a lot of credit to the horse and connections for winning this race. I think he wasn't given enough credit by Frankel/Prado and Pletcher/Velazquez before the race. Edgar was quite content to sit open lengths off him in that crawling time and didn't even get after his mount on the turn, he thought he had it made. They ran the last 1/4 in 22:3 so you could forget about anyone closing into that pace and winning. I still don't know if Cacique is better than English Channel or vice versa. English was rank early and Johnny was determined to wrangle him back. He ran wide and finished evenly. Guess we get yet another rematch of those two in the Turf Classic.

Not only was nobody going to catch him, nobody was even going to gain on him. He's the only horse in there that could run his last quarter in :22 3/5 on that turf course. That's why he was actually drawing away.