Another Take on the Derby (long)

[Stall Mucker]

Originally Posted by Linny

A very good article by a man who knows the business as well as anyone in it.

I was all to close to the fire before the article was written. My only question was: I've seen riders pull the trigger and not ride on un-safe race tracks. What would have happened if the jocks objected to ridding on Derby Day?

[blackthroatedwind]

He states opinion and vague innuendo as though it is fact. There's a recipe for great journalism. And, when you consider that he either doesn't know that the runup for CD 6F races ALWAYS creates unusually fast relative first quarters, or worse knows and ignored it so that he could attempt to prove a point, it throws anything he says that isn't substantiatable into question.