From strictly a handicapping POV, after WA's KyDerby effort, I have always taken the position that he can only produce his best efforts for Saffie Joseph at Gulfstream. In fact, he can only win at GP according to the Saffie trained PP's. He was a terrible 2nd choice purely as a handicapper.

Dutrow took the horse to heights SJ couldn't achieve with him. That said, Dutrow stated clearly while training him that the horse needs a lot of time in between starts (read between the lines why that may be true and I'm not being coy here).

I applaud the owners for keeping the horse in training as the game needs stars to continue to run. Unfortunately, he isn't even close to the same horse in the hands of Saffie as he was in Rick's for that Whitney and Classic double. And when Rick couldn't get him to run well following that Classic win and Saffie has only won in friendly F L A since, there surely are some issues for the vets to have their antennas up and the horse on their radar to avoid the result JB described.