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Originally Posted by Pedigree Ann
False favorites, at least a couple of them. Smoke Glacken over Gilded Time does not a 2-turn Polytrack horse make.
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While I didn't particularly care for any of them, I think Nownownow is the only one who probably was a "false favorite." (Clement's horse should have been the favorite, although I understand why he wasn't with only a maiden victory to his credit.) While I agree that Irish Smoke's pedigree suggested that she was suspect at the distance, off her dominating Spinaway victory, I don't know who else would have been the favorite. Same for Lady of Venice, winner of the CashCall Mile, and Baroness Thatcher off placings in the Ballerina and Test. Even if they were false favorites, they each ran poorly.