Pico looks like he is REALLY GETTING GOOD (understatement of the day), what I mean is that they may want to keep stretching this horse out. Like Pletcher did with Left Bank.

I had actually begun to consider before the race that maybe Strong Hope is strictly a sprinter. He seemed life and death in all his earlier races at one mile or over, even though he did win a couple.

Too bad for Funny Cide, things looked so bright a year ago now. Thorographs comments about the Preakness cooking him are looking smarter and smarter. Hard to imagine a Kentucky Derby winner running in the Evan Shipman and perhaps being in too deep.

Azeri never ran a jump, she seemed to be struggling the entire race, nothing looked fluid. For all of you D Wayne Lukas haters out there I guess its open season.

One thing is for sure you will not change my opinion of THE MAN.