Master of Hounds and Nehro

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Originally Posted by PatCummings

For the 24 hours leading up to the Belmont, I crowned Master Of Hounds the biggest underlay in the recent history of American horse racing. It might be tough to dethrone him of that any time soon.

Most of the "experts" who were picking him did so in a "shrug-your-shoulders-I-don't-really-know-which-way-to-go-in-here-but-not-Animal-Kingdom-I'm-really-not-sure" kinda way, which is the WORST part about it. It's not like he was fifth clear four lengths of the sixth place horse in the Derby, it was a three-way nosebob. One dive to the rail in the final sixteenth and a few replay watches later...

It just made no sense, especially in light of the O'Brien numbers, the constant traveling, all of it.

Yeah, I love Steve Crist's work, but I thought his pre-Belmont column in which he picked Master of Hounds with basically no justification, then said that Nehro had a better trip than Mucho Macho Man in the Derby, was bizarre.