Blue Grass & Ark Derby

[Port Conway Lane]

Originally Posted by pweizer

Couldn't the same be said of the breeding of POTN yet many on this board is very quick to dismiss his dirt chances? His breeding for dirt looks pretty solid to me.

Paul

No one knows for sure and to me it's no different than years past when the California horses were running on their speed favoring dirt surfaces. There was always the question of how the winners of the California preps would perform on the eastern dirt surfaces.Let's say for a moment that the pacesetter in the SA Derby had won that race and POTN had made the same winning move down the backstretch yet was unable to get past the leader on the old SA dirt surface.Would that make his chances any better to run well at Churchill?POTN defeated the probable derby favorite on a surface that may or may not be his best surface.For now I'll take that at face value and wait to see how he works at Churchill.