For what it's worth, I almost thought something funny was going on with the betting on this guy during the past week. When pre-entries were released he was priced up at 15:1 by Watchmaker and anywhere from about 8:1 to 14:1 on odds checker. And then, slowly, ever single day, he was bet down across the board. Each morning I'd wake up and another place would have gone blue and eventually he was well into single digits.

They drew the race and Watchmaker priced him up at 10:1 and the ML (Bataglia I believe) priced him up at 15:1. But across the pond he's well short of those again, at 6:1 or 7:1.

Given Ward's success with Undrafted at Ascot thought maybe that's why the UK types were betting him but...at every place? They could have just been playing follow the leader and moving on air possibly (a bookie...never...) but just sort of got the sense this really was actual people taking a serious position on him.

Dunno...it just felt odd.