Re: Fantastic Alex - Noble Scrappy - The rest suck (382 Views)
Posted by:
Bally Ache (IP Logged)
Date: May 21, 2005 11:24PM
Chuckles
I had Alex in the Sanford to which you refer elsewhere. I knew that provincial New Yorkers would underrate him. He paid $8 when he should have paid $5. That's how far back I go with this horse. Now I'm being preached to about him by people who only recently discovered him (I'm not referring to you here).
Here's what I see. After the Fla Derby you all liked High Fly. After the Wood you all liked Bellamy Road. After the Blue Grass you all liked Bandini. Now you all like Alex.
Well, I like him too. I bet him in the Derby. He didn't win. Rose put him in position to win and he got outfinished by a 50-1 shot and a 70-1 shot neither of which are probably ever going to the Hall of Fame.
Keep it all in perspective. You can't assume the last race is definitive.