jawsforthewyn

wins nicely at Oaklawn

great name to

what a pedigree, what a race, one to watch.

there is a difference between running sprints at 2 and at older ages. You know what I meant.

is rosario going to ride hidden scroll because he already has game winner.

this will be unpopular but in my opinion ghostzapper is wildly overrated. Here's why: many claim gz's versatility is what makes him so great, yes he was amazingly versatile but no one has seen American pharaoh run at 7f, so we can't say he wouldn't have won, imo he would. Second, he was great in the Vosburgh, (his 3rd best performance)but he beat almost nothing. Next in the tom fool and iselin he beat super-weak 4 horse fields, these last two don't take away from him but they shouldn't be considered great performances. In the Woodward he beat a horse he had no business in beating, st. Liam set a brutal pace and wouldn't let GZ pull away, one has to remember this was also before st. Liam was good(he was 11-1 the day). In the Classic GZ ran a great trace but got an ideal trip, the field was already fairly weak and his top contenders had bad trips, plus tex breeds were running world class times, but still this was a very nice race. However I believe American pharaoh's classic to be better. The met mile was another great performance but again came against a less than great field. In the end the two big reasons I think GZ was overrated are the weak competition he faced and even more how long he rested and how few times he ran, he never put together a long grueling campaign, he never ran in more than 2 gr.1 races in the same year for goodness sakes!

mucho?

nice run, brown is down to just a few on the trail, he might be brown's number 1 hope.

this crop really isn't looking to strong at this point, obviously things can change drastically but if war of will is the best stakes winner so far this year, it isn't pretty. I honestly don't see a good colt on the east coast right now, there are some ok ones but NONE that scare anyone. Hidden Scroll to me is the east's only hope against GW and Improbable. The Derby trail runs through Santa Anita this year, including the two above, Instagrand, mucho Gusto, Omaha beach, nolo contesto , anothertwistofate, galilean, roadster, etc. are all based out there. To me this western contingent is better than the horses of all the other prep tracks put together.

yes or no?