FINALLY: a good match up-- the Virginia Derby

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Originally Posted by Danzig

they put frost giant in the suburban as he had been doing better of late, the assistant trainer (and his jock that day in the race) had spent a lot of time with frost giant, and he seemed to be coming around. he's been referred to as a head case.
as an aside, dutrow admitted he didn't have a thin dime on frost giant that day-so that sort of throws your theory a bit.

Not to mention this quote from Dutrow that it was almost entirely Rudy Rodriguez that got the horse to do what he did:

"I just figured, what’s a mile going to do?” Dutrow said of his decision. “I could have just screwed him up if I tried it. For the last two or three weeks, this horse settled down in the mornings. This was mostly Rudy, not just today, but in the mornings."

I wonder if Rudy Rodriguez is included in those "big money connections" this dude values so much.