I drank the Kool-aide lastyear

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Originally Posted by Zippy Chippy

I agree. The hype around Big Brown reminds of of the talk about Curlin last year. "He's a monster horse" everybody said. "Forget that he only has three starts-- he's a monster." Well, Curlin IS a monster, but he was still too green to pull off a Derby victory. If a monster like Curlin couldn't pull it off, why should I believe that Big Brown can do it?

I'm sorry, but this is total nonsense. How, exactly, was Curlin "too green" to pull off a Derby victory? What about his run was "green"? The reason he lost is because he drew a bad post, he didn't have enough early speed to make out his own trip and he got bounced around. It wasn't because he was green.

What about two weeks later? All of a sudden he was no longer green?