Beyer Fig from Saturday

[The Indomitable DrugS]

Originally Posted by Bababooyee

Which is/was more deceiving?

Sinister Minister's 116 in '06

Or

Street Sense's 93 in '07


Maybe Beyer just likes to muck the Derby waters with "odd" figs for the Blue Grass... Who is he foolin!?!? When's the last time a BG winner went on to win the Derby!?!?

Sinister Minister's figure was accurate....he took advantage of an insane inside-speed bias and won by a pole. One of the horses beaten double digits returned to run 2nd in the KY Derby at giant odds, and later win the Haskell. Another horse beaten double digits in that race took the Super Derby and Dwyer.

Street Sense was by no means impressive in the Blue Grass. He barely beat Tufelsburg, who couldn't stay straight through the lane, and was passed from behind by winner Domincan. If Great Hunter doesn't get sawed off, you have five horses finishing within a half length of each other.

I realize very little can be learned from the Blue Grass---however, if Street Sense really was a dominant horse, and really ran such a big race at age 2 over the track like some suggest, shouldn't he have taken that race?