Well, I thought Rock Hard Ten put in a great performance; interestingly, he's way down on the list of horses with graded earnings, so that DQ likely cost him a spot in the derby; but like I said, that may turn out to be blessing in disguise -- he could really turn out to be a nice horse (he's a nice horse now), like a Medalgia D'Oro type of colt -- that's who he reminds me of a little. The Derby ruins so many promising horses, so maybe he's better off.

Re: Castledale, I think (of course this is COMPLETE hindsight!) when you look back over his thorograph lines, he's not that bad and probably shouldn't have been so long in that field -- especially if you were smart enough to see the bounces coming for Wimbledon and St Averil (which I sure wasn't). I'm just saying I don't think he was an impossible longshot; I certainly could have thrown in him in my pick 5 if I were using a bunch of horses; I mean sometimes if there's one horse in a short field I don't like, in the SA Derby it would have been the #2 horse, his name escapes me in the moment, that left me with five out of seven 'contenders' and sometimes I'll just go ahead and wheel the race not wanting to get beat by the two I left out (I realize that's not a ringing endorsement of Castledale), but my mistake was I thought St. Averil a single, so I had no shot, but hey you gotta take a stand -- we're all wrong enough times, but when you're right, it will pay off. At least that's my hope.