Just wondering...anyone know where can I get past Derby charts to look for info on horses who came into the Derby off layoffs of at least six weeks? Between now and Derby Day we'll hear or read, approximately 567 times, that no horse since Needles in 1956 has won off a six-week or longer vaca. I'm not sayin' I like Friends Lake and/or Read The Footnotes, and I'm not sayin' I don't...and I know that given the grueling nature of the race, it seems likely that a battle-tested horse would have an advantage. But before I toss the fresh ones due to some long-standing and oft-quoted trend, I'd at least like to look at the records of horses who've tried to pull this off. Has it been so few horses that the stat is an anomaly? Were the layoff horses hopeless to begin with? With the way horses are being trained these days, I'd almost think it's only a matter of time before we see a horse win the Derby off the lay.
Or maybe not. But I'd rather did a little deeper before making that call. Didn't see anywhere on drf or brisnet to get charts...any suggestions? Thanks.



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