This is actually a pretty interesting race. If it weren't for the fact that Harrington has such a great pedigree and is trained by Pletcher, I would love betting against this horse if he takes money.

I hate when a horse develops his reputation off his 1st start and it was in the slop. You can be certain that some percentage of them just liked the slop. Yet they will get bet as if they earned their figures on a fast track because that's the only info the public has to go by. In this case the horse has 2 slop races and an outside post! That's 2 ways he can lose. He can lose because he prefers the mud and he can lose because of the trip.

The problem of course is that since it's Pletcher and a 2.8M horse, he probably IS the goods.

Iced Out, Rush Bay and a few others are decent and moving forward. Whoever wins will have to run a decent race.



Post Edited (02-12-05 17:11)