What Smarty Jones faced in 2004 & what Big Brown faces on Saturday....the difference?

[dalakhani]

Originally Posted by philcski

Bunch of crazytalk in this thread.

2004 field was infinitely better than this group...

It isnt even close no matter how you feel about Big Brown or Smarty Jones. 2004's overall group was undoubtedly faster. Regardless, its not like it would have made too much of a difference in Smarty's fate. His belmont was slow and its not like it took an earth shattering performance to beat him.