A question for all of you planning to bet Sidney's Candy

[the_fat_man]

This is an intriguing horse. He stumbled at the gate last out, yet never fought the jock early, and, basically, took the lead by default. Talamo neither asked nor restrained him. This indicates SC can basically do whatever you ask him to.

Then, on the turn, when the others are running at him (or trying to), he's basically sitting chilly, while ACCELERATING. Talamo then needlessly goes to the whip the 2nd of two successive accelerating qtrs, but the race was easily over at that point. So, it really wasn't a question of needing to put him under pressure because he was quitting or threatened.

This is a very dangerous horse. If he's able to rate, you know at some point he's going to try to break the race open. If nothing goes with him, he's home. Who really can run with this horse the 5th and 6th splits?