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Originally Posted by intense
Am I crazy thinking Shackleford can hold on this time w/the shorter distance? he held strong with all of them rolling in at the end on Derby day.
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I think he's a bad bet on Saturday. He's a game little horse and having bet him in the Derby, he gave me a lot of juice, but the bottom line is he couldn't have had an easier trip in the Derby and he still had no answer for Animal Kingdom or Nehro in the last furlong. He's going to have to (a.) hope those two don't show up (literally in Nehro's case) and (b.) almost certainly deal with considerably more pace pressure than he saw in Louisville. Add to that the fact that you could have had him at 60-1 in the FL Derby and 23-1 last Saturday, while he'll be less than 10-1 in the Preakness, and he'll have to beat me.