Derby Status: Going
Graded Earnings: $331,872
Future Odds: 19/1
Owner: IEAH Stables and WinStar Farm
Trainer: William I. Mott
Was more than mildly disgusted with his race in the Wood, as he had everything set up for him.. He sat miles off of a sickeningly fast pace, got a well-timed ride from Gomez, and still flattened out badly in the last furlong. His approximate internal splits for the race were :25.46, :48.90, 1:13.15, 1:38.90, 1:52.65.. Now I know the track played slowly, but for a dead closer who got away with those first three fractions, to run the last three-eighths in :39.50 is embarrassing.. Seems to me like all he ever does is pass dead horses, and he couldn't even do that in the Wood. One thing you can say for him is that he's not going to stop running (slowly), so the case can be made for a suck-up third or fourth, but at anything less than 30-1, he might not even be worth that kind of inclusion.
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