Nobiz holds lead while Hard Spun drops

[The Indomitable DrugS]

Originally Posted by Kasept

My ballot/Overall

NOTIONAL 1 Nobiz Like Shobiz (9)
NOBIZ 2 Ravel (3)
ADORE THE GOLD 3 Street Sense (2)
LIQUIDITY 4 Notional (2)
RAVEL 5 Any Given Saturday (2)
EXHALE 6 Circular Quay
HARD SPUN 7 Great Hunter (1)
CIRCULAR QUAY 8 Liquidity
STORM IN MAY 9 Adore The Gold
BELGRAVIA 10 Stormello
STREET SENSE 11 Exhale
GREAT HUNTER 12 Hard Spun
IMAWILDCRAZYGUY 13 Summer Doldrums
STORMELLO 14 Drums Of Thunder
GREAT HUNTER 15 Belgravia
BIRBBIRDISWORD 16 Imawildandcrazyguy
ANY GIVEN SATURDAY 17 Birdbirdistheword (1)
DRUMS OF THUNDER 18 Teuflesberg
FOREFATHERS 19 Day Pass
ZANJERO 20 Curlin

I'm surprised you dropped Hard Spun that far.

Thought I didn't post it on this board before the race, I strongly felt he would lose the Southwest and said so before the race---I really saw a lot of circumstancial things against him going into that race.

Honestly, the more times I watch his race on Monday, the more I seem to fall for it.

I think he'd easily beat that same field again in a fairly run race, and with his rider putting him in the race early on.

I guess the question was---how good was that field? Like you, I would also have him at #7 on my Derby list....but I would have had him in that same spot going into the race.

If I was more confident in the validitiy of the 100 Beyer figure the race got, I'd even be a tad bit tempted to move him up a spot.