One of the better posts I have seen on the board, especially since it came before the Preakness. I took a stand against WE in the Preakness, trying to beat him with Md'O and PC. As it turned out, Md'O was just a bad bet because of the low odds. As for PC, I am still impressed with the horse, and will probably have him on a few of my Belmont tickets. Now to WE.....I made the point that WE was a fantastic horse when free on the lead over a speed favoring strip. I surely underestimated the horse. He has one quality that Slew, Spend a Buck and a few of the others have, he has the ability to make his own race. He is not at the mercy of the pace; he has enough class to overcome any potential pace scenerio. The question I still have with the horse, however, is his ability to draw off in the stretch when faced with a track that gives the stalking/closing type horses a fair chance to run him down. I am still reluctant to put my full backing behind this horse running a mile and a half at Belmont at 3-5.
Furthermore, I still believe that his horse will have a difficult time competing with the big boys in the fall...... Having said all that, given WE's class and speed, if he does manage to get the mile and a half at Belmont in a decent time, I will very happy to include him on the list of great horses, right there with Secretariat, Slew, and Affirmed.