D'OH! No Queen's Plate for Rocker..

[kgar311]

Originally Posted by DaHoss9698

I don't think anyone was portraying him as a superhorse. He had been extremely impressive, both visually and figure wise. And in a year when the 3 year old crop is mediocre at best, it appeared he might be a good one. I'm more apt to see how a horse bounces back from an effort where he/she might have a legit excuse like surface and or distance.

The Plate Trial was Harlem Rocker's first going 2 turns and first over a synthetic surface. Considering how good J Be K looked Belmont Day and considering Harlem Rocker pissed on him, isn't at least possible to assume that harlem Rocker is a lot better than the Woodbine effort showed? Maybe he has distance limitations and maybe he didn't like the track, but until he comes back, who knows?

So if he went in the Preakness that race would of been his first around two turns and against BB. Nobody seemed to think that would of been an problem for him that day and he would of had to been a superhorse to win that race. I hope for the sake of racing that he turns out to be good but people were way off about this horse at the moment.