How'd They Do?

RR slips yesterday into some sarcasm concerning Eight Belles and what's going on. Hopefully today I've regained my composure and will be able to muffle and keep the blog informative instead of hypercritical. Grouchiness from creeping age serves as good enough excuse + I have to watch this stuff for 20 years and still hear freak accident from Larry Bramlage and the Editor of the Blood Horse, bringing to mind, why all the hub bub over an accident?

More Eight Belles later in the coming summaries on injury prevention and trying to make some sense out of all this, but, for now, how did they do in the Derby vis a vis the training grades from the May 3 post?

My grades tended to by higher for the harder trainers, lower for the powder puffs, but numerous factors were considered. Google shows I visited the KY Derby website 48 times. Lol. And, again the disclaimer that the evaluations were in terms of getting a Derby "performance" instead of injury prevention. The latter would have required application of different parameters that I never looked at. Should have done it, in retrospect.

Here is the order of finish in the Derby followed by the grade from the May 3 post:

Big Brown B+
Eight Belles B
Dennis of Cork B+
Tale of Ekati B-
Recapturetheglory C
Colonel John A
Anak Nakal D
Pyro A-
Cowboy Cal C
Z Fortune C+
Smooth Air no grade given
Visionaire C
Court Vision C+
Z Humor C+
Cool Coal Man D
Bob Black Jack A-
Gayego C-
Big Truck B-
Adriano B-
Monba C

Some thoughts on these results, tomorrow.

Training:
Sun. 5/11: after 2 weather days off we recommenced. Planned a light riderless work in the mud but both colts showed a lot of energy and ran much harder than I wanted. Extremely energetic work with some speed. We'll have to lighten it a bit this evening.