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It's Kentucky Derby time! Time to embarrass myself in print once again!
You see, to handicappers, if the third race at Colonial Downs on a Wednesday in July held as many horses with as many questions about them, he’d skip that race and look for something in the next.
The problem is that we’re talking the Kentucky Derby — America’s classic of classics. And as much for bragging rights as anything else, you want to “have” the winner. So let’s take a look.
The Derby presents a tough challenge to find a winner because the race is at a distance that none of the 3-yearold horses have ever run. It’s at a time in their development when some make massive strides in maturity in just a couple of weeks. It’s in front of the largest crowd that any of them have ever appeared before, and the field is as large as the cavalry charges in those old Western movies we watched as kids. This is all new for the horses, and it’s tough to tell how any of them will react.
It’s that last element, the size of the field, that I think will be the undoing of likely favorite Curlin. That colt has dominated the fields of the three races he’s run, but that’s when he was in against six or seven horses, many of whom probably didn’t belong in top company. Now he faces 19 other 3-yearr
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