4/12 (KEE): Blue Grass (Gr. I)

[brianwspencer]

Originally Posted by Cardus

If you're an owner with a horse on the bottom end of the Top 20 (or on the fringe hoping to get in), how bummed you will be when a horse with inferior dirt credentials wins the Blue Grass Stakes and bumps your horse from the Derby starting gate?

Bummed enough to think you should have gone to the AR derby for the $1M purse? Bummed enough to go back and realize the rules have been the same for some time and everyone knew the Bluegrass would be on Polytrack and could produce a middle of the road dirt/turf horse? Bummed enough to think that maybe your horse should have won a big race or two and there wouldn't be a problem?

Just thinking. Every year someone complains when everyone knows the rules and everyone knows the preps and the benefits and pitfalls of approaching the Derby certain ways.