Palace Malice

[Merlinsky]

Originally Posted by Calzone Lord

Easy Goer was an all-time great horse. It's ridiculous that a horse need only win a few races at Gulfstream with moderate figures, and outfinish Golden Soul home in the Kentucky Derby in order for flattering comparisons to him to emerge by the Associated Press.

In their defense (well, not quite) it wasn't misjudging Orb and Gulfstream so much as lazy journalism. They went 'Oh the connections are the same as Easy Goer? It's like my story's writing itself!' In many cases I don't think they bothered to go much deeper than that. In the ones who did, I think it was less that they thought Orb was like Easy Goer than they just wanted it to be true so badly.