Well, the best colt is out of the derby as of yesterday with an injury - and he looked like he might have been the colt we have been waiting for since the glory days of the seventies...it wasn't just the fact that he had won all of his races as a three year old - it was the way he did it - pulling away from the others under a hand ride with such ease it was as if he was just out for a canter in a paddock, already in a gear none of the others could reach and obviously having a few gears left - dominating good fields of graded stakes winners as if they were the cheapest of claimers - and bred to run all day, with Seattle Slew as a grandfather and Alydar as a great grandfather on his mom's side of the family, with Secretariat among other standouts on his dad's. He was the best threat to win a Triple Crown since the 70's.
With the Derby less than a week away, I mourn what might have been.
Get better soon Eskendereya! Horse racing needs a super star like you can be!
The most highly rated colts - and one outstanding filly - left in the Derby field:
Even the great and undefeated mare Zenyatta runs on lasix. Is it the breeders, who seem to be more interested in breeding pretty ponies for the sales than they are in breeding durable and tough champions for the track (Triple Crown winner Assault had a deformed foot, and the immortal Man o' War was no beautiful show horse, either)? Is it the huge influx of quarter horse trainers like Lukas and Baffert and all of the trainers they have in turned trained, who simply might not know how to train a distance horse into peak fitness and performance? Is it all of the freaking inbreeding to Northern Dancer???
Song stunk, by the way! 