3/7 (AQU): Gotham S. (Gr. III); Toboggan H. (Gr. III)

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Originally Posted by Travis Stone

First off, I'm not elevating Red Rocks at all. He's not the same horse anymore.

And you're right, POTN beat the synthetic IWR. But the synthetic IWR was good enough to only lose to POTN by a... nose. Now we see the dirt IWR is pretty good, so if POTN were to handle dirt, then well based upon this comparative handicapping, it makes for another element of discussion. Which is all I was doing. Not proclaiming POTN as the Derby winner by any stretch. The wording in my original post was poor, and cause people to freak out with their keyboards a bit. My bad.

Nobody's freaking out, just trying to point out that simply because I Want Revenge lost by a nose to Pioneerof the Nile, then freaked on dirt, that has little to no correlation to Pioneerof the Nile's ability or what he would do on dirt if he 'handled it'. You're smart enough to understand the Red Rocks/Curlin comparison and that it has nothing to do with what Red Rocks is or isn't. You know the point I was trying to make.