Is This Really the Best We Have?

[King Glorious]

Ok, let's first establish that Watchmaker is an idiot. This we already know. So the order of his selections is not the point of this post. He's basically got all of the correct nominations for the top 10. U can put them in whatever order u want. The point here is how depressingly weak this group is when this is your top 10. Horrible. We all can agree that Lava Man and Invasor are the top two I'm sure. After that:

1 - Invasor
2 - Lava Man

3 - Sun King-For all of his hard work, he's still only won ONE stakes this year, and it was a gr II sprint.

4 - Surf Cat-At least he has won three gr II races this year but only ONE was a route.

5 - Brass Hat-Has a gr I and a gr II but no wins since February.

6 - Silver Train-Has a gr I and a gr II and the Met Mile is considered a sprint by many.

7 - Premium Tap-Just won the first graded stakes of his career. One gr I win.

8 - Park Avenue Ball-One graded stakes win this year and that was a gr III.

9 - Good Reward-No graded stakes wins this year at all. No stakes wins PERIOD this year.

10 - Flower Alley-One graded stakes win this year and that was a gr III.

That means that from the #3-10 horses, in route races, which is what this division is about, we have these totals:

3 gr I (Donn, Met Mile, Woodward)
2 gr II (New Orleans Hcp, Mervyn LeRoy)
2 gr III (Salvatore Mile, Iselin Hcp)

Is this pathetic or what?