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Originally Posted by Indian Charlie
You can't see a plausible scenario in which SB wins the Classic?
How about this one?
He isn't rushed through a grinding Triple Crown series and is able to maintain his sheer brilliance as a three year old. Being by a sire that does just fine with dirt progeny, out of a Storm Cat dam that has some really good dirt runners in her family, he somehow is able to overcome the theory that he's a synthetic only runner and manages to beat what is a quite mediocre group of older horses on dirt.
I have strong doubts he'll even be in training when the Classic is run, but is it really that hard to believe he's better than the older horses?
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Yes, but I don't exactly see the older horses as being mediocre either. Historically brilliant? No.
There are still some decent 3 year olds out there as well that either were injured prior to the Derby or are late developing (like Bay of Plenty, Rock Fall etc.).