Curlin to be m/l fav

[somerfrost]

Originally Posted by SniperSB23

The RAN thing is so ludicrous that I'm not even going to bother arguing it. They might as well come up with a curse for horses that ran February 12th with blinkers off and first lasix not being able to win the Derby since it would be about as signficant.

There is no real argument to it...despite the huge success that RAN has had as the sire line for Derby winners, he has had only one horse (Barbaro) win the Derby with the dam sire-line tracing to him...this despite the huge number of successful broodmare sires he's produced. I don't believe in curses...that's just the name given to this fact...but it is what it is! If you want to examine possible reasons, I refer to the research done regarding the LH+ theories and the theories that contend that a horse will get speed from sire and stamina from dam...if that is true, and I believe it is, then a "B" CDR like RAN would figure to be better suited in the sire line for distance racing.