Can someone explain the Colonel John silliness to me?

[slotdirt]

Is there a must play horse in this Derby? If so, I'm seriously missing something.

[The Indomitable DrugS]

Yes, Pyro.

[slotdirt]

My bad. After DrugSy's Pyro tout, is there a must play horse in this particular Derby?

[The Indomitable DrugS]

It's Mr. DrugSy to you.

[Thunder Gulch]

Tiznow may look like a Synthetic sire because all of those Cal-breds at Delmar, Hollywood, and Santa Anita. Tiznow himself won the Breeders Cup classic dirt race at Churchill downs covering 10f.

[The Indomitable DrugS]

Slew's Tizzy, Bear Now, Well Armed, Tough Tiz's Sis, Colonel John, .... all very good synthetic horses - and that's just off the top of my head.

[slotdirt]

I just can't buy the speed figures out at Santa Anita right now, so I use that in my mind to justify my feelings on Colonel John. I think he's probably one of the more likely entrants in this year's Derby to run his race, and the hrose does always seem to fire. He does have the two prep angle that has brought down many a fine animal before, for whatever that is worth.

[the_fat_man]

Silliness is looking at someone else's figures and assuming they're comprehensive. Try to formulate an opinion of a horse without thinking in terms of Beyers. Bet you can't.

This is very typical in the presently dominating IMPLANT mode of handicapping.