First, you gotta give Justify his due. This time, a full circuit horse in Good Magic went with him and put full race pressure on him. He didn't wear Good Magic down til the very end and that may have left him vulnerable, but he still pulled it off.

There were however, a handful of horses there with him. Justify will make his own luck and he did. Looking forward to seeing if Tgraph biased the track at all.


The Awesome Again ran a helluva race. Really loved his race on that crap. The other horse that you have to acknowledge is Lone Sailor. One day, maybe against lesser, he's gonna catch a break.


Good Magic earns a little rest. He's a good horse too.


Don't know what Lukas, Mott and Instilled Regard's trainers are thinking, but you'd think its time to throw a couple rabbits at him just to cinch the deal.

boardedup Wrote:
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> I certainly don't claim to be an expert in reading
> a horse's mannerisms or body language and will
> gladly defer to you or anyone else on here when it
> comes to that. And according to all reports he
> looked good the next morning, that said, two
> horses who weren't considered to be in the same
> league as him two weeks prior made up substantial
> beaten lengths to the point that Bravazo was only
> beaten 1/2 a length.
>
> Yes it's a different race, different conditions,
> and "performance isn't a constant" but as dominate
> as his derby win was, in my opinion this was
> anything but. They went out pretty slow, and
> again, he hit the tape w/ horses who weren't even
> an after thought two weeks prior. He was under
> pressure the whole way around the track Saturday
> for the first time ever.
>
> He wasn't dominate which is ok, but I find it
> hard to believe that was by design. A win is a
> win is a win no doubt, but it's hard for me to
> believe that MS was so confident he geared him
> down to the point of just holding on like that.
>
> He's great, but off that effort for me he's a
> clear bet against.