Summer Bird pointed for The BC

[brianwspencer]

Originally Posted by Antitrust32

Did you watch the Preakness?

This is classic, and worth noting as conversations like this always remind me of the big talk we had here a couple years ago about Sun King and Invasor....like "oh but he only beat Sun King by a nose!!!!!!OMGZ!!11!!" type comments.

Look, I'm no genius and no gift to racing by any stretch, but lots more people need to start learning that a "troubled" trip can occur even when a horse visually gets into no "trouble" at all. You don't need a check or a stumble or a poor start to have a troubled trip. Invasor beat Sun King by a nose when racing totally out of his element, and it was one of his more impressive career races -- just like Rachel's Preakness is IMO her best race, because she had the most brutal trip of her life and still held off the Derby winner when the race set up for him to take it so easily. Everything was in his favor that day and nothing was in hers....and she still won.

She is that good, and it's not always an "easy trip" just because a horse was pressing and has smooth sailing. Not at all, and that's the nuance in conversations like this that are lost on far too many folks -- if they can't *see* trouble, then it was an easy trip.

Handicapping 301 stuff, I know, so perhaps Drugs needs to get through 101 before we can get to that.