[King Glorious]

Couple of comments from Zito after the race the I am not sure how to take them:

"God Bless America," Zito enthused. "Only in America can you do things like this: Take a seven-year-old and have him come back running like a two-year-old. I was talking with a friend of mine the other day and I said he was going to break the track record. I looked at what they had in the program and I knew that was out of here. He did it and the track (today) wasn't exceptionally fast either."

Ok so he knew he had the horse so good at this point that he was ready to set a track record but he didn't want to enter him in the Hal's Hope because of the competition? That seems like a waste of a good effort to me. We know that this is a very fragile horse. It would seem to me that if I'm only going to get a limited number of opportunities with him, and I've got him ready to really roll right now, why not take on a bigger race than what he just ran in?

Zito is looking forward to what lies ahead for Commentator.

"It would be wonderful to have some fun with him this year," the Hall of Famer said. "If we can keep him like this, he can beat any horse in the world. He beat horses like Saint Liam. When he's like this, he can run with anybody."

It seems that Zito believes he can beat any horse in the world.....except for Chatain. This is the part of the game that I hate. Trainers scratching from races because they are afraid of the competition. I liked it when trainers would worry about their own horses. They would get them fit and ready to run the race they wanted them to run and not worry about what someone else was doing. If your belief is that you've got your horse cranked up 100% and that he's ready to set a track record and you believe that when he's like this, he can beat any horse in the world, why scratch out of a race because of Chatain and go in a cheap optional claimer with a horse that you know is fragile and you are likely to have limited starts with?