Jimbo:

High Limit's "1" in Lousiana is what I say is bogus, if a "1" has any meaning at all. The LA Derby doesn't stand up to scrutiny today, 4 months later, no matter which way you look at it. Vicarage & Wall Street Scandal were both dusted in their next starts; Storm Surge yet to win out of that race. It was a garbage race, over rated, and High Limit himself has done nothing to flatter the Lousiana Derby form with 4 straight losses since. If that race is a "1" for him than a "1" is pretty much meaningless.

If memory serves, TG gave High Limit "1"'s as a 2YO, which is why I have questions about TG's evaluation of him. He hasn't run like a horse with three or four "1"'s; he runs like a horse that's never broken 4. And as for today? Forget what "pre-race expectations" were. He started slow, that's it - it wasn't a calamity. He had plenty of time and opportunities to win it. That he failed that is bad enough. When he got outfinished by a horse that ran YESTERDAY AND SHIPPED IN for second, that proves to me he's WAY overrated by Thorograph.

M3