Thank You Mine That Bird

[Slewbopper]

Originally Posted by blackthroatedwind

If it wasn't for Mine That Bird's inscutable effort today, we would have seen three relative mediocrities hit the wire together in one of the slowest KY Derbies in modern history. Now, instead of endlessly hearing about how wonderful a horse Pioneer of the Nile is, and one that only synthetic haters failed to see the obvious greatness of, we can all scratch our heads as to how this otherwise " slow " horse could destroy today's field.

Why can't you admit that Pioneer ran a damn good race and was beaten by what most believed to be a hopeless longshot? He was the second best horse in the race, hardly the throw out you had been dissing all week.