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Originally Posted by Linny
Funny thing. You never hear of any one actually pointing a horse for the Illinois Derby. Has any trainer ever said "Yeah, we'll go from the Swale to the Gotham to the Illinois Derby..." Nope. It's like a last ditch stop to a big payday for someone yet Sweetnorthernsaint and Greeley's Galaxy both took alot of $$$ in the big dance in KY.
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I always make this comment about the Lexington. Its a race that no one that is mapping out a derby program for a horse talks about using as a prep. If your horse is running in the Lexington that means that something went wrong along the way, timing related, or missing training, etc. Otherwise its used as a last ditch effort to catch a few necessary dollars to make the derby field.
I don't think anyone originally point towards this race.