Like it or not Richard Dutrow is probably right.
"If he breaks clean, it's a mismatch to me on paper."
You can call it hubris, you can call it anything you like and I hate to admit it but I think he’s right.
And for middle-aged horse players like me, Dutrow and Big Brown are déjà vu.
The way Dutrow talks about Big Brown brings the memories flooding back of another controversial trainer named Johnny Campo who like Dutrow had more than one run in with the authorities. Campo won the Derby in 1981 with Pleasant Colony.
Campo was opinionated and not afraid to call a spade a spade. He described the rest of the 1981 field as “bunch of garbage” and he was right. Field horses took three of the top five positions behind Pleasant Colony in that Derby.
The truth hurts but Big Brown will probably crush this field.
Someone once said about Pleasant Colony "a good horse doesn’t know who his trainer is" and I guess the same can be said of Big Brown.
4 comments:
Oh man, I love that photo...
Et tu, John? You're buying into this Big Brown crap? Blah!
Hey Valerie,
I am just being a realist, his talent is obvious. I am not an enthusiastic supporter but as Dutrow says, with a good break, he wins.
Without a good break I am pulling for Z Fortune and my Pool 2 future wager. :-)
To Valerie and John---Remember, that the Best Horse usually wins the Preakness and Belmont. Not true with the Derby. The Derby is a Rodeo, and the Best Horse doesn't always show up in the Derby.---For Dutrow to say "with a clean break" ---Well heck, doesn't every horsman want a clean break? It's the Horse that has to fight, dig in, look the others in the eye, fight on the rail, or off the rail, or in traffic, that's the Horse that's a champion. Sort of like Foolish Pleasure wouldn't you say?---r
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