I was bugging a ton of people on all week (and thanks to Steve byk for asking Priv about it on Friday's show) trying to find any info about how Vic was doing.(and yes this sort of thing should absolutely be mandated to be in the form). Knew about the abscess but obviously greatly concerned because he'd missed a work and his last work, as same day as ARod's last, was 2 full seconds slower than Arod's. It really struck as odd how both Maker and Ramsey were talking non stop the last 10 days or so about ARod and WeMArit/Bkitten but literally hardly a word (Ramsey mentioned the abcess briefly in an h.r.r.n. interview two weeks back) about Vic.

Obviously the concern was a horse with, as the ROTW points out, a great pattern and fast, but who was pushed into the race not really ready for it.

Thought (mild red board here, prepare yourselves) that if he ran great and won would set him up perfectly with fast, paired top for big day. He won alright but did he actually regress even with the reasonable margin of victory. That's why we come here, of course.

Which just proves the old adage, you can get what you want (he won), and still not be very happy (possible regression).

5 weeks to go.