What a difference a nose makes.
When Schoolyard Dreams lost the Tampa Bay Derby to Odysseus by the
slimmest of margins on March 13, it changed the entire spring plan for
the slightly made 3-year-old colt. It may have changed the complexion
of the Triple Crown as well.
Had Schoolyard Dreams won the Tampa Bay Derby, he would have
had enough earnings to make it into the Kentucky Derby field and that
would have been his next start. But the loss forced the connections of
Schoolyard Dreams to run him in the Wood Memorial, where a fourth-place
finish to Eskendereya eliminated him from Derby contention.
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