Having said all I just said, I just read for the first time this entire thread which dates from after the Preakness, with your ongoing insistence that the quarter crack could wind up meaning a lot, and shouldn’t be papered over. I never saw any of that ( I think the Belmont thread was a different thread that disappeared) , so I was not aware of your POV on this and how sure you were BB would fail. Wish I had read it before last night.
My super bets would have been different. As it turned out , ONE “favorite” —D. of COrk-—PLUS the three longest prices in the 9 horse field, made up the super, and it returned nearly 50 grand. So there was money to be made in this race, with BB out of it.
I don’t know that it was definitely the quartercrack, but it had to have an effect. Don’t care what the experts say.
He missed training. He was getting confused and frustrated because his routine was changed. He wanted to run but couldn’t. I don’t know how many times good horses have lost, then we hear they had quarters, but the trainers weren’t “worried” about it.
Oh well, couple nice races at Hollywood today. :-)