Prado

[The Indomitable DrugS]

If I took Prado over JRV in the Road to the Roses contest - I would be the only person in the national overall contest to have 200 or more points scored and have a decent overall lead.

What basically killed me was Check It Twice. At the time of the contest, I thought he would be the key to me winning the whole thing.

I took him, I took Pletcher, and I took his jockey Johhny V. over Prado and Desermeaux solely because he had the mount on the horse I thought had a great shot to be the eventual leading point scorer in the contest at the time.

The very next day it was announced that Check It Twice had a problem...he's been off the trail since.

Pretty tough break - not just because I lost a horse right off the bat, but because it put me on the wrong jock just like that.

Had it started a day or two later - not only would I probably have taken Prado - but it was very likely that I might have used either Tale of Ekati or Momba in place of Check It Twice. ToE was the horse I bet in the Juvenile last year - and while I didn't like Monba...he was going to be the post time favorite in a Gr 1 two weeks hence. It seemed like EVERYONE had Monba besides me.

It seems like a miracle that I'm in 27th place nationally when my whole plan for winning it all centered around Check It Twice.