Street Sense was easy to pick in the Derby. Truth is he was my "Go To" horse ever since the B.C. Juvenile. However in the big field, had the track come up slop I definitely would have made Hard Spun the Go To horse.

Had Curlin not drawn such a tough hole he would have had to be factored more forwardly.

Lastly, had Street Sense not worked like a machine at Churchill, (Not even blowing after his works), it would have been easier to take a shot at him.

As it was all conditions merged to his advantage, including the off odds.

In a sentence, Street Sense has no known advantage at Pimlico.

CtC

Uncle Buck Wrote:
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> I hope you guys don't spend too much this Saturday
> trying to beat Street Sense...Here's this
> morning's report from the Louisville Courier
> Journal:
>
> Kentucky Derby winner Street Sense had the
> Churchill Downs backside buzzing again this
> morning after working five-eighths of a mile in a
> minute flat, his final major preparation for
> Saturday’s 132nd Preakness Stakes in Baltimore.
>
> Trainer Carl Nafzger had planned on the Street
> Cry colt going in 1:01 or 1:02, but he was
> unconcerned with the faster time because he said
> Street Sense did it without any urging from jockey
> Calvin Borel.
>
> The work was somewhat similar to Street Sense’s
> final work before his Kentucky Derby victory over
> Preakness rivals Hard Spun and Curlin. Street
> Sense worked in 1:01 May 1 for the May 5 Derby.
>
> “The horse did it without any effort,” Nafzger
> said of today’s work. “He wasn’t charging the bit.
> He wasn’t trying to work. That’s his gait. He
> (also) was faster than I wanted before the Derby,
> and he’s a fitter horse now. He was a very happy
> horse when he walked off the track this morning. I
> don’t think he was even taking a deep breath. His
> eyes were just normal.”
>
> As is the structure of Nafzger’s works, Street
> Sense started off fairly slow, going the first
> quarter-mile in 25 seconds and the first
> three-eighths in 37. Then he picked up steam,
> going 48 3/5 for the half-mile and finishing his
> final eighth-mile in a sterling 11 2/5 seconds.
> The Churchill clockers caught him galloping out
> six furlongs in 1:12 3/5.
>
> “He worked super good,” Borel said. “The
> horse is going forward every trip. Work-wise, he’s
> still going forward, not backward.”
>
> Jennie Rees