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Old 06-11-2019, 04:56 AM
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Originally Posted by Alabama Stakes View Post
You must have been psyched when Silver Strike went out there to the lead quickly at 30-1 and the other Ortiz grabbed a hold of Complexity instead of continuing up the gold rail to the lead.


Derby day = gold rail
Preakness = gold rail
Belmont = gold rail

They all soup up the rail on the big days looking for headlines. Someday Belmont will get that 2:24 they’re looking to get.
Doesn’t a juiced track put the safety of the horses at risk? Given the press the industry has faced this year and even in the last week wouldn’t it be the absolutely dumbest move imaginable to INTENTIONALLY create the conditions that put horses on a national stage at peril? Maybe it’s just that in New York the unimaginable happened. It didn't rain for nearly a week.
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