Romans benched a week for NY bute positive

[Calzone Lord]

Originally Posted by RolloTomasi

Instead of pretending that Romans put one over on everyone, just admit that your handicap of the race was botched and bring a red pen along with your laptop next time.

Uh huh.

Her dirt form with Pletcher:




What Sassy Image looked like coming into this race....she stalked a pace that was slow on everyones pace figures and still backed up.




Amen Halliuja had just crushed Sassy's Image by double digit lengths in two of her last three races. Sassy's Image is shorter than her in the betting at one point in a race with a $2 million + plus WPS pool.

Tidal Pool (for the most overbet human connections possible at Churchill) is longer than SI at one point in the betting.




Evening Jewel was beaten a nose in the KY Oaks over the track and came into the race in good form. She's longer at one point.

But yeah. Sassy Image just made so much sense. She hadn't run a Beyer higher than 89 in her career... She hadn't won a race in a year and a half. She just got drowned by 14 lengths stalking a slow pace. How did she not figure to win this Grade 1 by open lengths?