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Originally Posted by classhandicapper
I'm not trying to make a case against him. I'm trying to make the case that it was big effort but probably not as big as the hype.
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New York version of California Chrome (won the 2014 SA Derby in much the same way w/ a similar BSF while on a massive win streak).
That isn't a complaint if he shows back up at 4 (or dare I say 5).
The problem is that the fractured Triple Crown is within his grasp since there is no Test of the Champion (ie 12 furlongs) on the ledger.
And when you compound that with this facile Travers win and the chatter about a Grand Slam or Quadruple Crown or whatever, if he wins both the Derby and the Preakness the likelihood of him stepping out as an older horse is minuscule at best.
Here's hoping Nobel Prize is some kind of dirt freak or--more realistically--Honor A.P. gets a new jockey...
