This One's for Phil goes nuts...

[zippyneedsawin]

Originally Posted by Smooth Operator

Seeing the re-breaking, pharmacologically-altered freak known as Curlin nose the likely 'roid-free Street Sense in that '07 Preakness was really the last straw for me. Been playing poker ever since.


Seeing the freak get absolutely trounced at the first-ever 'roid-free Breeders' Cup by those two young Euros will always be one of my fondest memories, though...

uh-huh. and the surface and fact that Curlin was clearly tailing off at the end of the year had nothing to do with it.