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Old 05-03-2015, 05:22 PM
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I think that the ground loss that AP had is being overblown. He was kept outside in the clear without having dirt kicked in his face, basically the same race that Espinoza rode with California Chrome last year and a very good trip.

That tactic can cause a very different result in the Belmont. We still have no proof that AP can take dirt in his face.
Why does he have to prove that he can take dirt in his face? If he can win doing what he's doing and look the same at the end of a race as he did when he started . . . nothing wrong with that and win the way he does too . . . no flies on that milk. If it ain't broke, etc, etc. He didn't even look like he broke a sweat when he finished yesterday. I don't think we've seen his best yet. Sure he had to work a little to win but . . . you have to get nit picky to down play his performance.

Don't throw the time thingy at me either. You don't run horses to set track records, you run them to win. Who cares what his time was except all the number crunchers . . . he knows where the finish line is and what he has to do to get there before anyone else and he has a good pilot on him to help make that happen.
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