Preakness - I don't think I like anyone

[Rupert Pupkin]

Originally Posted by brianwspencer

For what it's worth, if any of those were bounce candidates (depending on the extent to which you believe in it...), it was Giacomo.

Barbaro ran a career top in the Derby, Smarty Jones had been consistently fast going into it, but Giacomo ran his best TG fig by far -- improving his best ever performance by 4.5 points, which if I'm not mistaken correlates to roughly ten lengths better than any of his previous performances which were in and of themselves sort of sneakily better than they looked.

I know that numbers aren't everything by any stretch, but if we believed that Giacomo shouldn't bounce but Street Sense should, something doesn't add up.

I know that there are people that believe that a horse will "bounce" if the horse runs a career-best race. I'm not a big believer in that theory. I believe that horses should have plenty of time between races and if you bring them back too soon, they may not be able to repeat their previous race. I don't know if you would define that as a "bounce".