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Originally Posted by Travis Stone
Dunkirk ran second!! I don't get it. You're hellbent on Dunkirk not being in the race but this the Kentucky Stinkin' Derby. If you owned even just the horseshoe on his right-front hoof and you grossed the wire second to one of the favorites with a good run you'd go too.
There is a long, massive list of horses who should not have run in the Kentucky Derby. But, it's the Kentucky Derby. So whether or not Dunkirk is healthy enough to compete down the road is a moot point. They're going. So, the question should now be whether or not he's capable of making up the deficit to QR and the others not just a long list of reasons why he shouldn't go.
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yes, i know he did. but i don't think comparing big brown to dunkirk is relevant anyway. the horse has three lifetime starts, with nary a stakes win to his credit. i've said why i'm not picking him to win. and no, i don't think he can make up the difference-he hasn't even won a stakes as yet. if he wasn't trained by pletcher, and hadn't been bought for over 3 million by tabor et al, most would be laughing that he's even under consideration for the race. the fact that he's fashionably bred and fetched a large some doesn't suddenly make him derby material. if it did, the green monkey would have won by daylight a couple years back.