Rachel vs. Zenyatta: Which run the better race?

[The Indomitable DrugS]

Originally Posted by JerseyJ

The detention barn threw Giacomo off his game for the Belmont Stakes? That could be as laughable of a quote as I have ever seen. More like faster and better horses threw Giacomo off his game for the Belmont Stakes. Moss is in la-la land if he thought it would have mattered if Giacomo was in the Detention Barn or not that year for the Belmont Stakes against Afleet Alex. But they can think and believe all they want.

Giacomo was moving like a winner after 9.5 furlongs and stopped like he got shot with a bebe gun at the top of the stretch.

I doubt the detention barn had anything to do with it - but something obviously went badly wrong with him inside the quarter pole. With a grinder - You don't look like your loaded and under a hold while passing the leader on the far turn ... only to have claiming and allowance horses you went by beat you home.