Graded Stakes Earnings List

[cmorioles]

Originally Posted by The Indomitable DrugS

A deserving horse like Rock Hard Ten got excluded from the Derby because he was DQ'd from 2nd place in the Santa Anita Derby.

A horse like a Big Brown, Hey Byrn, Face The Cat or even Elisyum Fields (with just 70K) all could find themselves excluded even with a big effort in the Florida Derby if they foul someone.

Why was he "deserving"? They had a year to get him some earnings and didn't do it.

[The Indomitable DrugS]

Originally Posted by cmorioles

Why was he "deserving"? They had a year to get him some earnings and didn't do it.

He was trained by the hapless Jason Ormen - and was a very late developing horse who didn't make his stakes debut until the Santa Anita Derby.

I say he was deserving because he would have certainly taken more money than any of the horses coming in from So. Cal that year.