Re: ZITO and LUKAS (562 Views)
Posted by:
jimbo66 (IP Logged)
Date: May 23, 2005 01:12PM
Commendable is on most people's list of "worst winners of a Triple Crown race".
However, what Lukas did this year takes the cake. Commendable was only 14-1 that year and did not come into the race off of resounding defeats. No, he didn't "class up", nor was he "fast enough", but he wasn't thrashed.
Look at what Lukas did this year. HE gets beat 41 lengths in the Wood. For most trainers, that would be enough to discourage them. He decides "the race is too bad to be true", so he wheels him back in the Lexington against a lousy field. He gets beat 17 lengths there, another thrashing. He comes back with "some horses don't like Keenland" as his impetus for running in the Derby. He gets beat 29 in the Derby. Another thrashing, and his new line is "the pace got him, I feel we should persever with this horse". Then he gets beat by 40 in the Preakness.
Now he says "we want to get back to what this horse does best, which is sprinting"
They should immediately revoke his Hall of Fame status. It is shocking to see the Lewis's be a part of this years mess with that horse, as they have always come across as classy. And when Consolidator got hurt before the Derby, both Lukas and the Lewises said all the right things and took it in stride.
Apparently they took it out on Going Wild......