Akansas Derby

I took a glance at the two races.  Blogger presently distracted with work overload, and less attention available for horse racing.

Blue Grass appeared a bunch of horses prepped for 6f as one might imagine with the winner having connections to the two trainers that blogger is without any trouble of bad mouthing publicly---which would be McPeek, trainer of the winner and Zito, trainer of sire of the winner.  How McPeek ever wins anything is beyond me, although in this case looked to be a combo of nice pedigree (War Pass was such a talented horse-and good to see some progeny), an entire field that managed to stop for the late closer, and possibly and probably by accident a racing strategy that Zenyatta showed so many times is effective--with lack of warm ups and bursting out of the gate exhausting most field--and one hangs back who basically does his warm up out of the gate before he starts running--that works lot's of times against these present trainers.

Arkansas Derby looked the much nicer race on the vid to me.  All those horses were really running, and then the Plecher horse bursts out front.  If--as Bill Pressy comment indicated--Plecher now warms up his horses while the rest of the field does the traditional pony warm up--would that type of warm up by itself possibly explain Plecher's sudden resurgence?

Txs to Pressey for the lengthy comment.  Will address this further later since it brings up interesting points..
Can u look at Ark. Derby and fail to be a little enthused to get to training ur horses?  Can we get ours to run like that for a mile+. 

#17 was ridden mostly at trot for about 15 min. yest.  1st steps of gallop today possibly.  Surface on new field very problematical and we're therefore seriously entertaining thought of exiting KC June 1.