Travers Buzz: Quality Road a yes..

[Danzig]

Originally Posted by dalakhani

Tector-

No disrespect but it didnt seem like too many people had a problem with QR's appearance in this race before it was run. You posted twice to this thread before the race was run and didnt once question the connections choice of putting QR in the travers. Two industry types (their opinions i greatly respect) on this thread defended the move after it was brought up. In all the threads leading up to the race there were only about 4 people that questioned the move at all.

Are you criticizing the connections now because of something you saw in Quality Road Pre race? Meaning, did the horse obviously not look well and in your opinion should have been scratched?

i sounded cautionary notes a few times-but they largely went ignored. people thought he was talented enough to overcome everything in his path-obviously not the case at all. there were more questions then most wanted to ask. pletcher sounded hesitant, but i'd imagine it wasn't his idea to run the horse. they'd have been better served waiting a week and running in the woodward. but i don't know that even a week would have been enough.

the issue here is more of people lacking respect for the belmont winner. summer bird has shown steady progression since breaking his maiden-just five months ago. the fact he lost to rachel is no black spot on his resume.