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Originally Posted by Robert Fischer
he entered the Derby as both a wild-card and an extreme underlay.
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Sometimes I wonder about things like this.
Virtually every wise guy on planet earth was somewhere between somewhat skeptical of him or outright hated him because he wired in a slow pace on a speed favoring surface in the FL Derby.
So you have to wonder, if everyone and his brother tossed him, maybe his odds fully reflected the risk that he was fraud or more.
It's one thing when the horse has already been exposed when challenged and then puts up a big figure with an easy lead. But when you don't know yet, maybe more often than not they turn out to actually be very good horses.
This is more of a rhetorical comment. I don't the probability. I just know a lot of these lightly raced ones beat me. I didn't use him, but I wasn't anxiously throwing him out either.
