Giacomo = No chance

[avance2000]

Originally Posted by miraja2

Well.....yeah sort of.
Basically I just wanted to start a thread to see if there were a lot of people who agreed with avance2000 about giacomo being an "interesting" horse in the race. I suppose I could have started the thread by just asking "What do people think about Giacomo's chances?" but I just figured I would jump right in with my opinion. As for the other longshots, if people wanted to start threads that became discussions about the horse's chances....I really would not have a problem with it. If I was interested........I would read it and if I was not......I wouldn't.
And as I said before....I really would not mind if there was a thread about every horse in the classic. I think it might help people cap the race.

Anyway scuds, I am sorry that expressing my opinion about a Kentucky Derby winner's chances in the BCC pissed you off so much. That was not my intention.

my point was this: you can't really make a case that giacomo is going to be a factor in this race, but nobody could really make a case for him before last year's deby either. that didn't stop him then.
are horses like invasor and bernardini better than giacomo......yes! but so were afleet alex and bellamy road.
a lot of these horses have question marks:
-will they like the dirt?
-will they like ch. downs?
-will a huge crowd spook them?

giacomo has already answered all of those questions......on this track...at this ditance. i think that is significant.
if you want to go on the record saying he won't hit the board....that is fine with me.....but i disagree with scuds......i think you are making a significant statement miraja. it is significant because in my mind you are just wrong. i'll go on the record now....giacomo will be one of the first four horses to cross the finish line. period.