Why are Hard Spun's Connections so stubborn?

[Samarta]

Originally Posted by Danzig

if he wins it, porter gets to say he owned a classic winner.
if he loses, what does porter lose? nothing. he doesn't have to worry about a blemish on hard spuns record, he doens't have to try to make this horse succeed in his next career. there is zero risk for him.

personally, i hope a horse with no darley connections wins the thing. they snapped up all these horses, trying to buy a win, i hope a 'small timer' gets the glory. but you'd have to think darley would rather street sense wins it, since they have both him and his sire. but they've covered their bases with any given saturday, and now own part of HIS sire, and then of course hard spun...

But that's the name of the game for a lot of them including Porter....Offered in the 4 mill range for Lawyer Ron when he was still with Holthus at Oaklawn. He just bought 50% interest in Kodiak Kowboy. It's what a lot of people do....I don't fault Darley at all.....