No Derby for Hard Spun ???

[philcski]

Originally Posted by Kasept

What in the hell is Porter talking about? What similiarities between Oaklawn's and Churchill's surfaces? And who's doing all this talking about it? If they're so concerned about their 'well thought out plan' and the Preakness is the goal, ship to Pimlico and 'test' its' surface. Good grief. No outfit does more hand-wringing and teeth-gnashing than Fox Hill. It's unbelievable.

Agreed. And I don't buy the "he didn't handle the track" crap in the Southwest. He was hung 3-4 wide the whole way around from an impossible post at a mile, and still only got beat 3 lengths to a lone speed and earned a good speed figure. Not to mention he worked what 3 times at Oaklawn and fired a bullet every time. Why do they try to excuse away every loss these days? He lost. So what. He came back and dominated his next start.

He's currently at the top of my Derby list but I hate this indecision. It's not as egregious as some other guy's decision to try to win the Derby off what amounts to 1 race campaign in 2007 and an 8 week layoff... but close.