I hope for the same thing. He has had his chances, and the track record for athletes with these types of problems isn't all that good, but maybe he's finally past his demons.
As for Came Home and Mayakovsky, they may both have distance limitations in their pedigrees, but I really like what I've seen from Came Home. We see horses outrun their pedigrees, and maybe he can. On the other hand, I thought Mayakovsky was pushing the envelope in the Gotham.
Isn't it interesting that Edgar Prado takes off Mayakovsky, a Kentucky Derby prospect, to ride Bowman's Band in the Oaklawn Handicap? I don't know what kind of commitment Prado had for Bowman's Band, but if he truly felt Mayakovsky was a special horse that could take him to the Derby winner's circle, wouldn't there be some chance he could have broken that commitment? I know Prado has Harlan's Holiday, who, at this point, seems to have a much more legitimate shot at winning the Derby, but by taking off now .. doesn't that kind of say something not so good about Mayakovsky?
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