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Originally Posted by Cardus
If you're an owner with a horse on the bottom end of the Top 20 (or on the fringe hoping to get in), how bummed you will be when a horse with inferior dirt credentials wins the Blue Grass Stakes and bumps your horse from the Derby starting gate?
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Bummed enough to think you should have gone to the AR derby for the $1M purse? Bummed enough to go back and realize the rules have been the same for some time and everyone knew the Bluegrass would be on Polytrack and could produce a middle of the road dirt/turf horse? Bummed enough to think that maybe your horse should have won a big race or two and there wouldn't be a problem?
Just thinking. Every year someone complains when everyone knows the rules and everyone knows the preps and the benefits and pitfalls of approaching the Derby certain ways.