Rachel ran a good race, but...

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Originally Posted by Danzig

i thought his scant victory over any given saturday at tampa was one of his better efforts. then there was the battle with curlin...in both those races, he didn't get the god given parting of the red sea perfect trip, but ran his eyeballs out.
but then, i'm more impressed with rachels preakness than her oaks, so go figure.

If both of those races were run at CD, I think he wins both and perhaps even comfortably. Given the video evidence of his BC and Derby wins on that track I wonder why there is even a discussion about this. He just catapults off of those turns like no one else.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sS6q36Xqcps - Derby
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uB6NdbRDVkQ - BC Juv