Olympic Chief
 

The Janet Davidson trained Olympic Chief, off a 9th place finish, beaten 55+ lengths in the Arkansas Derby, while making his career debut....has been nominated to the Alysheba Stakes on the Kentucky Oaks undercard.

In what is probably just another prep for Olympic Chief's main goal---perhaps the Met Mile? He figures to face a fairly decent group of older horses, if in fact his trainer is crazy enough to run again.

Todd Pletcher led the way with 8 nominations for this race. They being Fairbanks, Half Ours, Harlington, High Cotton, Lawyer Ron, Magna Graduate, Master Command, and Throng.

Poor horsey.

Uh oh!!!

Completely ridiculous. What exactly is this trainer trying to prove?

I still think Rick's Natural Star is still worse than what Mrs. Davidson is doing with Olympic Chief which is bad.

First horse I thought of when I read this. It's ridiculous.

The Rick's Natural Star award of this week goes to Amira Aman, owned by the good doctor Nasseem Rauf, entered in the Giant's Causeway Stakes on Saturday at Keeneland.

For those who don't know this guy's story, this mare was his first win since I believe 1993 (a 5k MSW at Beulah on 2/23), a streak of around 300 starters. He homebreeds all of his "runners" and they're completely inept, however he loves to put them in spots where they have no chance (this one is 99-1 on the ML.)

I think he gave one of his horses to another trainer who has won 2 races out of three starts under the new trainers care that he still owned. You would think he will get the hint that he can't train

Luckily she's on the AE list, so we can hope she doesn't even get in and potentially cause trouble for a horse who actually belongs in there.

I'm actually rooting for her to get in so the Doctor can get his free tickets for Saturday.

To his defense... he's an award winning doctor in Lexington and breeding/training is just a hobby for him.

So is Dr. Dre

And Dre would probably make a better trainer from the sounds of it.

Nice.

On the bright side, while they weren't the best of their respective Derby crops, I don't think I've ever seen a nom list that had so many horses on it that at one point or another were in a Derby Prep and/or the Derby.

I don't remember seeing a 99-1 ML before. Even Olympic Chief was given the customary 50-1.

--Dunbar

And amazingly 50-1 is exactly what he went off at.

What they should have done is ship Olympic Chief up to Hawthorne for the NJC race. He would have been guaranteed to not only get in the field but run no worse than fifth.