Bill Finley on why Kentucky Derby runner-up Nehro, apparently sound and in form, should be running Saturday at Pimlico:
Since 1984, a horse that has started in the Derby has won every Preakness but three…. Fresh horses don’t win the Preakness. Horses coming back two weeks after the Derby do.
With those kinds of odds, passing up a million-dollar purse looks foolish.
It’s not that “fresh horses don’t win the Preakness” it’s that better horses are in the Derby so it stands to reason that a horse who can make that race has a better chance of winning the Preakness than a horse in the Tesio or Jerome.
Posted by EJXD2 on May 23, 2011 @ 1:39 pm
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