How did he go off at 12-1 sixth choice? I alluded to this before the race on the Serling thread.
Serling and Aragona picked him on top, the latter allowing 10-1. Milkowski liked him at better than 8-1. Beer picked him third, elevated to second with a scratch.
Free dismissed him as "a cut below" after picking his four, but that's ample public handicapper support. Apparently minethatbird08's "third best 3yo" in the Baffert barn was the best of a superior California crop this year?
He wasn't very popular on PA. Users "Trifecta" and "XTB" picked him in the likes & tosses thread. Robert Fischer and Afleet had him in the "B" stack. Taxicab and I had him second. I was on the
, with many others here.
That said, my only real tosses in the top six were the favorite and
, and I was nervous about the latter given his popularity here. I played a few savers with
&
.
I adopted the theory that
belonged on the list of top (4) contenders, and his form was muddied a bit to offset Baffert inflation, but I was still surprised to see him above 10-1.