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Originally Posted by Dunbar
I pretty much agree with everything Philcski's written about SH in this thread. btwind, what makes you say the Fla Derby was "hardly Barbaro's best race"? I suspect you are using circular reasoning: something like, 'He had trouble getting by the nothing special SH, therefore, it wasn't Barbaro's "A" race.'
We shall see. If the odds are good enough, I won't hesitate to bet on SH.
--Dunbar
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BTW can answer for himself but I have an opinion on it. Watching Barbaro in that race I got the impression that they were trying to use him at the minimum required level to win the race in order to leave as much in the tank for the derby as possible. I think they didn't anticipate SH getting so stubborn on the rail. What I saw was less than an all our effort from Barbaro.
To me the derby pretty much confirmed this in my eyes.
With that said, I still thought it was a great effort that day by SH.