henthorn wrote:Don't forget that owners often push their trainers to place horses in wrong races, and Going Wild may have been one of those. Often the trainer knows he will lose the owner if he doesn't go along. Then after the race, the owner can be haunted by the spoken or unspoken words of "I told you so", and get a little smarter. Lukas has been around long enough to know that sending an inadequate longshot to the Derby gets him no press, except bad press.
Bob & Beverly Lewis are listed as the owners. I seriously doubt they pushed Lukas to run him. But that is what makes the world go 'round...different viewpoints!