Wow, how much is Dutrow wagering the first Saturday in May?

[philcski]

Originally Posted by Danzig

really? like what? hope i don't sound like a smarty pants, but i don't see how he has an edge compared to bellamy. but then, i liked bellamy road.

Bellamy's field was about 10X better than this one... take a look at the pp's (available on DRF http://www.drf.com/tc/kentuckyderby/...erby_pps.pdf)- half the field would be the 2nd choice in here. And that wasn't even that strong of a Derby.

Originally Posted by The Indomitable DrugS

Nistle's Crunch totally ran off with the blinkers and would have more than ran with him if Julian hadn't resorted to a choke hold.

With Georgie Boy gone, who's run individual races even remotely as good as Big Brown?

People are playing pretend with themselves if they don't think Big Brown goes into the Derby as by far the best horse.

The reason to not like Big Brown's Derby chances is because he's a very poor fit for the race style wise.

I can't even imagine how far out there people have to be to think there is another horse who's best race is as good as his best race.

I'm very excited to bet Pyro - but he has no individual race that rates competitively with any of Big Brown's.

Drugsy, you are saying exactly what I'm what I'm saying. If he can't rate, and runs off with Desormeaux, he won't win, or if he's not really a mile and a quarter horse he won't win. But for anyone to claim there's been a better prep than the Florida Derby (which could have been a 113 Beyer, at that) they're fooling themselves.

Is betting a horse at 7/2 in the Derby exciting? Absolutely not, which is why everyone's lining up to take shots at his chances.