Big Brown Scareoff

[3kings]

Originally Posted by Danzig

yeah....but.
like dahoss said what about point given (among others)? he finished fifth in his derby...presumably not 'good enough' to warrant a trip to md. but he went, and he won and started a streak of four gr 1 million dollar wins in a row. i think it depends on the horse tho. everyone needs to consider their own horse, how he ran, whether he ran, how he came out of it, whether he can handle belmont, etc.

Point Given was considered the best horse going into the derby...realistically I don't think any of the owners or trainers actually think they can beat Big Brown on a speed favoring tight turned Pimlico course