Re: Five Weeks Rest (417 Views)
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Silver Charm (IP Logged)
Date: April 05, 2005 12:04AM
Tony it was a great game and it was your year. Good for Roy.
Bailey will be riding this horse Derby Day, post 1 or 20. He has nothing better and will not between now and then. Zito will have his work cut out for himself, keeping this horse sharp but he has done it before.
By no means am I saying that High Fly is my Derby Day selection. But anyone who tells you he can't win because he comes in off five weeks rest is to be ignored.
The last time a trainer came into the Derby (long ways to go still) with this strong of a hand was when D Wayne Lukas ran FIVE HORSES. The local newspaper ran a front page Derby Day story calling him crazy, obsessed with the race and bad for the Derby. Three of the five became Grade One winners at a Mile and Quarter or longer (Derby, Belmont and Strub)another won the Met Mile as a 3YO (was used to siphon Unbridled Song along Derby Day)and the fifth ran third in the Derby.
Lukas never got an apology. Zito deserves better when he shows up.
Lets hope he gets it.