Dear Bob

I, too, am crazy enough to publicly defend the Kentucky Derby prep methods of Godolphin. In my view, they do a super job prepping horses. I do not believe that their prior losses in the Derby were a result of poor prep.

No need to rush to a bomb shelter. I think we can handle the flak out here. Most importantly, we need to be sure to profit from our convictions if they prove correct, since I believe we will be rewarded on price for going against the grain.

You have written about the losses you hate the most being where you get a bad trip. I accept bad trip as just a part of the underlying uncertainty one contends with. It is no fun, but it is a real part of the game. The losses that anger me the most are where I have handicapped perfectly, but for some idiotic reason I have failed to bet correctly. Before I suffered two extraordinarily extreme bad beats, my worst bad beat had been where I got shut out from a race for reasons too absurd to imagine. My point is there are lots of ways to be right and have nothing to show for it.

The moral of the story is -- if there is a Godolphin horse you like, make sure you have more to show for it than these posts if the horse proves the naysayers wrong. Good living is the best revenge.

SoCalMan2