Derby training and workout reports

[justindew]

Originally Posted by Kasept

That's incorrect regarding Hard Spun. He was training well for Derby. The issue was the speed of the big :57 work and whether or not it would have a negative impact on him race day.

Hard to believe anyone would find fault with guys who correctly answered the biggest question of last year's race with a $43.80 winner.

That depends on who you ask, in all honestly. I seem to remember reading something about him appearing sore and stiff before that fast workout.

[Calzone Lord]

Originally Posted by justindew

That depends on who you ask, in all honestly. I seem to remember reading something about him appearing sore and stiff before that fast workout.

Yeah, Andy Beyer picked him to finish dead last in that years Kentucky Derby based on the fact that he ran off in final workout and the clockers all trashed how he finished the work up.

It was a bullet work -- but it was also the consensus most knocked work of any horse who was viewed so much as even a marginal contender in that race.