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Originally Posted by toetoe
Good points by TLG in this thread. The average trainer can't take a horse all over the country on the Derby Trail. I believe Schettino even admitted that he couldn't.
That same year, I was in love with Naughty New Yorker. Only two possibilities that he would even get close to the Derby with Patrick Kelly and Jean Luc Samyn --- slim and none; and slim scratched.
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Giacomo won the derby that year. Naughty New York was as arguably as good a colt as Giacomo. The Naughty one -he still is in training and should start soon- could have won that race on his best day.
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