Re: Materiality (867 Views)
Posted by:
covelj70 (IP Logged)
Date: April 14, 2015 01:23PM
great point on the Pletcher injuries but.....
Verazanno and Scat Daddy had no chance on the pedigree (Verazaano actually went off as a big price bc of the pedigree)
Constitution, ESK, Algo were hurt before the Derby so they never got to run
I make this argument every year but when has Pletcher had the fastest horse going into the race that had the pedigree to make the distance and that horse hasn't won? he hasn't
for all the noise about his poor derby record, his horses run the same percentage of tops and pairs as the avg horse running in the derby.
he just hasn't ever had THE horse yet
Esk and Constitution would have been the horse(s) but unfortunately, they were hurt
I can tell you very confidently that Materiality is absolutely physically thriving right now. There's still 19 days to go but he is doing very very well.
This is a different situation for Pletcher this year with this particular horse than any of the ones that people want to criticize him for
now, maybe bc of AP, Pletcher picked the wrong year to have THE horse so I have no problem with someone giving me that pushback but Materiality will be double the price so I have to lean in that direction