Is Street Sense overrated?
There’s a very interesting post about the Kentucky Derby champion over at Handride. Basically, Patrick is not a believer. His argument is sound - Grasshopper almost beat Street Sense in the Travers, and then he was completely exposed in (not-so) Super Derby last weekend. Any Given Saturday also ran close to the Derby champ in Tampa Bay in the spring, and has turned into a bit of a wonder horse now. Though I don’t agree that Street Sense will flame out in the Kentucky Cup Classic and be retired before he heads to Monmouth at the end of the month, I do think that Street Sense is getting more credit now than he deserves, that he will be bet down at the Breeders’ Cup (assuming he wins his last prep in Kentucky), and that the amount of attention he gets will open up the possibility of betting on other horses because their prices will be higher than they otherwise would be.
UPDATE: Patrick must have been on to something. Street Sense was never able to get past Hard Spun in the Kentucky Cup Classic and wound up second in the four horse field. Now we’ll have to see what decision his owners make in the next week or two.
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