Some past memories of horses who stunk, but not really

[The Indomitable DrugS]

Originally Posted by MisterB

Thunder Gulch (1995) finished up the track in the Blue Grass S. (G2)

Yes, that race was classic Keeneland speed bias.

Giant longshot Wild Syn set a soft pace and went wire-to-wire.

The two best off the pace types in that year's Bluegrass Stakes (Thunder Gulch and Tejano Run) had no chance the way the race worked out. Tejano Run finished 3rd and TG 4th.

Of course, those same two horses finished 1st and 2nd in the Derby, and Wild Syn was nowhere.

The great racing press, didn't focus on the circumstancial stuff surrounding those two horses losses in the Blue Grass at all. Instead they focused on the idiotic things they normally focus on.

I guess Wayne Lukas had a Timber Country hat and a Serena's Song button on, and was talking up those two to the press all week, and his other horse naturally won.