Re: derby (569 Views)
Posted by:
flushedstraight (IP Logged)
Date: April 20, 2007 01:27PM
Hard Spun closed at 13-1 in KDFW pool 3.
I'm guessing that a decent chunk of that $ on him came from those loyalists that saw something special in the Lecompte and stayed on the bandwagon through the (successful?) experiment in the Southwest loss and through the non-traditional poly road to the derby. In the much larger derby day pools with much more public money, the loyalists would have a smaller impact and odds will be longer if my assumption is correct.
This is a Pa bred with excellent low profile connections that probably won't get the media attention deserved. His poly race was flawless but hasn't generated much hype. Considering they didn't let him run his race at Oaklawn, his last true dirt race was over 3 months ago; there's no telling where he is right now. Unless the race collapses as it sometimes does, he's likely to create his own racing luck with no worries about traffic & such.... Pino will have him effortlessy cruising in the right spot with his hand on the go switch assuming he doesn't get an awful starting post.
Not drinking the kool-aid yet, but this is one of the ones where the toteboard could dictate using as a key with no regrets.
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