How Derby winners have performed in Preakness since '89

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Originally Posted by Calzone Lord

It's simply not a good crop of 3-year-olds colts.

The group that ran in the Breeders Cup Juvenile last year wasn't much, Southern California only getting one horse to the Derby ...and a bunch of the underneath Derby horses losing to I've Struck A Nerve are three ways you could try illustrating it.

Which, sadly, may be the only circumstances under which we ever see a Triple Crown winner again- one 3-year-old who is just better than a mediocre rest of the crop during the 5 weeks of the Triple Crown.

Not saying that's Orb, though as a fan of racing of course I wish it to be.

I rewatched the Sunday Silence/Easy Goer Preakness recently and thought about how if either of them had been born in a different year, the other would have been a TC winner.