Blue Grass & Ark Derby

[Danzig]

Originally Posted by The Indomitable DrugS

I believe he was lucky in that the pace was as strong as it was - yes.

The vast majority of people will tell you the trip IWR had in the Wood was worse than the one GQ had in the Tampa Derby .. and they'd be bigtime wrong. All because of the pace each horse had in front of him.

Obviously it doesn't mean GQ's Tampa Derby performance was better than IWR's Wood performance - because IWR ran about 20 points faster.

sadly, i missed the wood. i know he had a bad start-but that doesn't exactly equal a bad trip? once he got going, did he have clear sailing from the get go? all i've heard is how he overcame the start-but that doesn't tell the whole tale.