People...this one is easy. Goer never got his feet under him in the Derby. He was spinning his wheels the whole way around that track. Play the films of his B.C. Juvenile and Derby and you can see his discomfort with the surface. His dam wouldn't lift a foot in the goo. Shug thought Easy was 10 lengths plus superior to his stablemate Awe Inspiring. Easy barely nosed him at Churchill and beat him the 10 lengths plus at Pimlico and Belmont. I think Awe ran at Pimlico not sure now.

The Preakness was Patient Pat's fault and Sunday's gameness. Its too long a story to tell, besides I've told it before. The Classic was just fate. A great horse overcomes adversity (Azeri in her last) but the problem is adversity is more difficult to overcome when theres another great horse in the field.

Tabi