6/28 (HOL): Gold Cup Day (4 stakes)

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Originally Posted by RolloTomasi

Just to clarify, then, you were wrong.

And yet winning the SA Derby over King of the Roxy and Sam P. makes him a good dirt horse? Isn't it just as likely that Heatseeker (by synthetic sire extraordinaire Giant's Causeway) regressed in the Oaklawn Handicap, thus getting nipped by this 2nd rate horse that he normally has 3 or 4 lengths on?

Or did he have valid excuses in the Kentucky Derby, Belmont, and BC Classic, his other important dirt races?

Well he did have valid excuses. He was facing Curlin, Rags to Riches, Street Sense, and Hard Spun.