Re: Smarty Jones, the O-2 pitch (427 Views)
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Kingfisher (IP Logged)
Date: May 04, 2004 08:40AM
I saw the Ark Derby the same way. But what really attracted me to Smarty was the Rebel Stakes. It wasn't just the very low number- rather it was the way he did it. Looking at the race, at around the eighth pole you could actually see him kick it into a higher gear. That and the fact that he did it after legitimate fractions was important to me. In the Ark Derby, though, I didn't see the same kind of acceleration in the stretch, though as you said no one , including Borrego, seemed like they could get up to him. So my question is the same- was he fully extended in the Arkansas Derby? My conclusion was that he wasn't. So I think his apparent 0-2 pattern is deceiving, and the Kentucky Derby result was not surprising.