KY Derby 2012

Interesting faces yesterday. Time to start paying attention to the Derby. It looks as if Baffert's second string won the Arkansas Derby since Bodemeister is yet to be listed in the Daily Racing For Top 20. Am thus without B's PPs.

Bodemeister probably received the usual Baffert prep similar to Secret Circle. Plenty of week apart breezing at 5-6 f in near 12s for the month before the race. U can look them all up here.

http://www.drf.com/events/kentucky-derby-top-20-churchill-downs

And for the pictured horse Dullahan, big boy looks like, who gave some signs of being pulled up in distress (bleeding--fracture--or, just gassed?) in the Blue Grass another one of those over speed workouts. Take a look at D's PPs:

http://www1.drf.com/workoutsForHorseAction.do?rNo=09031094

As noted last post--overspeed training makes u strong. Opposite for underspeed. For such as Neil Drysdale who practice the greater distances except at underspeed, we rarely see them in the big races in terms of performance, and this ignores the injury causing aspect of underspeed training.

Finally there's D. Wayne Lukas and his Optimizer. Unable to pull up the PPs. Why is the trainer of the 1980s and 1990s these days unable to train a horse? Likely has something to do with the combo that trainers rarely change their stripes and Lukas is under training these days against the 2012 trainers that from what I see in the PPs now do more than Lukas's minimal speed work and probably for that reason alone Lukas is without any chance.