Knee surgery sidelines Dialed In

[Calzone Lord]

Originally Posted by RolloTomasi

Not saying I buy into that, but it seemed to be an acceptable excuse for Animal Kingdom's Preakness loss, so why not Dialed In?

I don't think it was in AK's case in the Preakness. In fact, AK wasn't fast enough to get any closer to that pace.

To me - the weird horse is Shakleford. He's only run two decent races in his entire life - the Florida Derby and Preakness - and both times they absolutely let him rip early on.

Shakleford's Kentucky Derby 4th was a terrible performance because of the pace - and his Belmont performance was equally terrible - basically he hated the restraint and the two piece of sh!t who sat 2nd and 3rd behind him (Ruler On Ice and Stay Thirsty I believe are the names of those two horses) inherited the lead and winning exacta when he stopped.

I was telling people before the Belmont: "If Castanon doesn't have 15 on this field in a blink of an eye - he's riding his horse wrong. That horse runs like sh!t when they try to nurse his speed - and when he goes fast - at least he pulls everyone behind him out of their comfort zone all the way back through the deepest closers in the race"