Pyro

[JJP]

Originally Posted by ceejay

His running style will make it tough in a field of 20.........

If one were to break down running styles of the winners of the last 25 KY Derbies, you'd find more closers winning than speed horses, pressers or stalkers. I don't have the charts of these races so I'm going off memory here. Some of these might be debateable but here's how I'd break them down:

Speed: War Emblem, Go for Gin SPend a Buck, Winning Colors
Pressers: Smarty Jones, Swale, Sunny's Halo
Stalkers:Barbaro, Funny Cide, Charismatic, Real Quiet, Silver Charm, Thunder Gulch, Lil E Tee, Sunday Silence
Closers: Street Sense, Giacomo, Monarchos, Fusaichi Pegasus, Grindstone, Sea Hero, Strike the Gold, Unbridled, Alysheba, Ferdinand

And with the bigger field, it does seem that some pressers going into the race became stalkers (Silver Charm, Funny Cide and Barbaro) and stalkers can become closers. But I wouldn't hold Pyro's running style against him.