Preakness After Thoughts

Real trainer of CA Chrome--Sherman?  Delgado?.

--Lucky Pulpit + Not for Love (instead of A.P. Indy/Smart Strike/Giants Causeway/Unbridled Song/et. al.
Backyard breeding on the comeback? Dam of Chrome first bred to Redattore. Foal died.

--the roustabout good ole boy owners (unable to keep their mouths shut).  this group might turn into a vodka glass before this is all over.

--track conditions--superb. Horses getting easily getting superior lift off track.  Social Inclusion in the stretch, less so.

--Bayern--badly stumbled out of the gate/then smashed by Ria Antonia/and again by Ria. Napranik declines riding aggressively (good.  Horse stumbles out of the gate that badly--rider should protect the horse and self --and play havok with RR exacta.)

--Chrome and Ride On Curlin--the two best trained horses + Bayern finish one/two.  How often does that happen?

--Perfect ride on Chrome!

--Social Inclusion trying to take a bite out of Ride On Curlin down the stretch. Hey, I see it everyday.  Horse racing to a horse is prevention from being passed by whatever means.  The preferred method (instead of just speeding up) is jousting with your pursuer.

--Social Inclusion  as a good/great horse--several nice pre-race vids of this horse.  Looks good instead of great horse.

--Social Inclusion folding up like a tent in the stretch--predictable.  Can horse breeze 4f one time in 19 days  and be prepared to go all out for 1 3/16th?

--Chrome and his two mile gallops.  They're going to breeze the horse one time in three weeks and expect a TC in a 1.5 mile race.  While Art Sherman frets over how "tough" it is racing again in "three weeks" woo woo, today's vids show Chrome fresh as a daisy walking the shed row.  Personal experience -- two mile galloping (as opposed to 1.5 miles or 1 3/8 miles as many do) produces superior fitness.  They go around there in close to :15s, get in several :14s, and we may bet that Delgado, the exercise rider of Chrome, is really the trainer of this horse in any event.  Delgado will get in appropriate speed work while Sherman is gossiping with the connections.  If Chrome stays healthy, are they on the right track doing 2 mile gallops for the 1.5 mile Belmont?  Many ways to peel the apple.

--How good is this story for the horse side of the sport? Would our journalists, Blood Horse/DRF/TDN/Paulick publish on the impact!