Rebel Rebel, the old David Bowie song? I remember that one.

Its a love affair with First Samurai. He's by eveybody's favorite B.C. Classic wise guy horse, Giant's Causeway, who is by everyones favorite Derby Hopeful sire, Storm Cat. Steve Haskin wrote a very glowing article about First Samurai pre B.C. Classic, which seemed to be out of character for him. He was one of the very few to not jump upon the Bellamny Road band wagon post Wood. Anyway, I got in touch with him over his glowing remarks about First Samurai and he drew back a bit from them.

Of course now the wonder horse has lost two straight and still hasn't seen two turns. Is Brothers hiding them from him? He reminds me of Pulpit. (I'm not sure why, Pulpit didn't start at 2 and was running fairly well at two turns.) If i'm not mistaken Pulpit was also trained by Brothers. Frank Brothers is everyones sentimental favorite to win the Derby too, so that may be part of it. The horse is probably talented enough to run hard in Kentucky, but theres little reason to believe he's much more than a precocious Storm Cat. Of course, I thought the same about Blue Grass Cat pre Sammy Davis. Maybe they will run One-Two in the Derby. If they do, it will sure beat me.





from his andrichiebee Wrote:
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> Looking at Ed Fountaine's "Derby Dozen" in todays
> New York Post, the following 3YO Derby prospects
> will be pointed at the Rebel at Oaklawn on March
> 18: Private Vow, Lawyer Ron, Keyed Entry and
> possibly Strong Contender. Private Vow will be
> making his first start off of a layoff, and the
> other 3 showed a commitment to the front end in
> their last races.
>
> Some posters on this board have said that Lawyer
> Ron was rank during the running of the Southwest.
> Keyed Entry broke two track records in beating
> First Samurai in his last race at Gulfstream (his
> 6 furlong split was faster than the track
> record).The abundance of early speed in the Rebel
> might cause John Ward (Strong Contender) to
> consider the Gotham on Aqueduct's inner tube, also
> on March 18.
>
> Respect Fountaine's opinion, but don't understand
> how he still has First Sam at the top of his
> list...
>
>
>
> Edited 2 times. Last edit at 02/27/06 10:59AM by
> richiebee.






Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 02/27/2006 06:34PM by Chuckles_the_Clown2.