The Street Sense We Got
It wasn’t the Street Sense who dominated in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile or the Kentucky Derby. The Street Sense who won the Travers, writes Mike Watchmaker, “was the Street Sense who barely edged Any Given Saturday in the Tampa Bay Derby, who missed in a photo in the bizarrely run Blue Grass, and who was nailed by Curlin in the Preakness when he pulled himself up after opening a clear lead in deep stretch” (DRF+). The great shame of Street Sense’s imminent retirement to stud (BRIS) is that he’ll never get a chance to overcome this immaturity and fulfill his immense talent. We might get to see how Street Sense does against older horses before the Breeders’ Cup Classic, though: The September 22 Massachusetts Handicap is among the BC prep options trainer Carl Nafzger is considering. “You need to run, I think, against older horses,” Nafzger said (Times Union). The possibility must be tantalizing Suffolk Downs officials. The MassCap lost its graded status after it was cancelled in 2005 and 2006, but the track is dangling a large bonus on top of its $300,000 purse to any winner of a Triple Crown race entered.
