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[Carol S. via Derby]

Rinse and Repeat.  When a trainer has the Big Horse, they know it and will
try for a TC.  It's supposed to be Hard and for Special Horses, hence only
13 have won it.  It's Fine just the way it is.

On Sat, May 8, 2021 at 1:46 PM Mark Peel via Derby <
derby@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>  Carol wrote: It was only 3 years ago that Justify won the Triple Crown
> and 3 years before him that American Pharoah did the same.
>
> I'm not advocating longer spacing between the Triple Crown races in order
> to generate more (or fewer) Triple Crown winners.   There haven't been all
> that many TC winners in the first place, and that's as it should be.
> I'm advocating more spacing because a two-week interval between a 1 1/4
> mile race and a 1 3/16 mile race simply doesn't reflect modern
> racing—owners, trainers, and horses alike don't want to wheel back into the
> Preakness after only two weeks' recovery.
> Of course, we can continue to run the Preakness as we always have—but it
> all but guarantees that the second jewel in racing's Triple Crown will be a
> less competitive, less interesting race.  The Kentucky Derby's point system
> comes as close as possible to guaranteeing a high-quality field.  Running
> the Preakness two weeks later guarantees the opposite—many defections, and
> "new shooters" who weren't good enough to qualify for the Derby.
>
> The 147th Derby was one of the closest ever: four horses had a legitimate
> shot at winning with less than half a furlong to the finish line, and if
> there had been Trackus GPS tags in their saddle cloths, the numbers would
> have shown an even closer and more competitive race than the 1/2 length
> final margin.  Yet 16 of 19 Derby entries have passed on the Preakness,
> including several, like Essential Quality, Hot Rod Charlie, Known Agenda,
> Highly Motivated, and Rock Your World, that had excuses and might have
> competed in the Preakness with four weeks' rest.  The Preakness would have
> been a better race with some or all of them in it.  It's shaping up now to
> be a very uninspiring contest.  And, to your point, makes the possibility
> of an "unworthy" TC winner more likely.
> Civres
>
>
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