Question about Blackberry Road

[SniperSB23]

Originally Posted by pick4

Blackberry Road has $123k in Graded earning according to Churchill's kentuckyderby.com site.

I've been wrong a lot more than I've been right but I agree that Ohio Derby is a more realistic goal for Blackberry Road.

Yet if he's eligible, I'm sure the owners will enter him in Kentucky Derby 134. Take a look back of past winners of the Kentucky Derby at drf.com in their Kentucky Derby section and you'll see some sensible fields of 13 or 14 in 1994, 1997, and 1998.

I'm sure we will get a full field of 20 this year but most at least half the field will have no business running in the race.

The Ohio Derby is certainly a more realistic goal but it doesn't mean they won't send him to the Derby off a top three finish at Hawthorne. He'll probably like ten furlongs and would have a shot at getting up for 4th or 5th which is still a nice paycheck.

[pick4]

Originally Posted by SniperSB23

The Ohio Derby is certainly a more realistic goal but it doesn't mean they won't send him to the Derby off a top three finish at Hawthorne. He'll probably like ten furlongs and would have a shot at getting up for 4th or 5th which is still a nice paycheck.

I agree with you and he's just another slug in a Derby Trail littered with slow slugs who cannot get the distance or who can get the distance but are too slow.

Hopefully the Derby picture gets more clear in the next few weeks. There is not one horse who has turned in a performance this year that made me say that is a Derby winner except for Pyro's win in the Risen Star. But he's on top of everybody's Derby list and everybody is usually wrong.

[Rudeboyelvis]

Blackberry Road = Sam P.

[Thunder Gulch]

Gate- yes
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