The Derby figure

[Calzone Lord]

Originally Posted by 10 pnt move up

I dont see nearly the type of hype with CC that there was with the horse you have used, if anything there seems to be a backlash you dont see with horses with his form and ease of wins at this point in the trail.

He's not being hyped like Orb, Fu Peg, Street Sense, or Big Brown after the Preakness? I'd probably agree with that.

Still...even though most figs had him as the fastest horse coming into the race... TVG analysts, industry people, and European are now using him as a platform to trash American style speed figures.

The European Racing experts are seriously like arguing with Walter Vosburgh. I LOVE Walter Vosburgh, but he's been dead for almost a century.

The "form based ratings, that take sectional times and final times into consideration, but don't rely on it" That's what sharp American handicappers did 130 years ago.

Europe thinks we need to turn the clock back 130 years.

I suppose we still have the Experimental Free Handicap to please them.