Who Will Be The Pace Setter In The Derby?

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Originally Posted by The Indomitable DrugS

Don't think Desert Party doesn't have early zip if he is asked for it.

He worked an 1/8th in 10.20 at Calder last year - en route to beating out highly impressive debut winners Munnings and Mr. Mistofflees for the honor of being the sales topper at the nations best 2-year-old sale.

For a son of Street Cry (who won the Stephen Foster going 9fs at CD with a 118 Beyer) and out of a Tabasco Cat mare (TC was 2nd in the BC Classic at Churchill with a 115 Beyer) ... he sure does have some good zip.

I'm not actually sold on Tector's point that a horse can't win the Derby coming from Dubai ... I just would have liked to have seen this horse been a little better at age two.

Hard to argue that anything that tops FT Calder is really a slow developer either. So there goes the "but what if he's vastly improved?" card.

Times are changing, I keep reminding myself of this when looking at this year's race. Derby myths = traps. It should be my signature to remind me of this fact. A horse will win going synth to dirt 1st time and a horse will win from prepping in Dubai one day. Will it be this year? I don't know, but I'm partial in thinking RR is a real nice horse.