Re: ROTW---INDIANA DERBY (659 Views)
Date: October 06, 2003 10:29AM
>>Toccet also ran horribly (though we all agreed he would have to improve a real lot to run well in that spot) further
indicating the PA Derby was not that strong. <<<
>Huh? If anything it indicates TOCCET is not that strong, which is one reason the Pa. Derby was a great betting race. <
I never said that Toccet was a good bet in the PA Derby. I also said he was an underlay. What I did say was that I wasn't 100% certain he ran "his" best race there because it was in the slop.
What I meant on my above comment was that the PA Derby figure you DID GIVE HIM was not so slow as to make it certain he would finish dead last and totally buried. So that is another peformance out of the PA Derby that does not support it being an extremely fast race for 3yo Grade 3 horses in the fall. Just as the Indiana Derby horses also indicate - with 2 finishing up the track and Grande Hombre running very well, but not as fast as the PA Derby.