Most impressive Derby prep winner today?

[Cree]

Curious what your thoughts were...was out and about and didn't get a chance to see the races.

[TJ]

Curious what your thoughts were...was out and about and didn't get a chance to see the races.

Hi Cree,
Not sure which race you're talking about so I'll post them all here, so you can watch them. I did post Falling Sky's video win at Tampa under Pete's" Pasco Stakes" post....there were 2 other 10 pointer's today. The RB Lewis Stakes:
http://www.drf.com/events/robert-b-lewi ... anta-anita and The Wither's: http://www.drf.com/news/aqueduct-revolu ... ithers-win ....To me none of these races were as impressive as 3YO Verrazano's allowance race win over a well though of horse of Nick Zito's...Eton Blue. He's behind the eight ball with Derby qualifying points, but will most likely find a spot out of town to get his since the time table is off for him to run back in the Fountain of Youth. Here's Verrazano's race. TJ
http://www.drf.com/news/gulfstream-park ... nt-victory

[Cree]

Verrazano looked like a man among boys in that race, agreed.

I thought Revolutionary looked impressive, stayed composed while trying to find room, got up in time.

Pletcher looks stacked, like usual.

[wen8t]

I liked flashback

[da hossman]

I thought REVOLUTIONARY's win was incredible - the jock took him everywhere but the ladies room!

Seriously though, he breaks a bit slow, is placed on the rail, runs into a box on the back side, is stopped behind horses on the turn, swings into the 2 path when straightened out for the stretch, then dropped back to the rail, swung out again into the 3 path, then splits horses to win. The colt made 3 or 4 moves in the race and closed into soft fractions - an impossible task for 99% of the Thoroughbred population.

This was a relatively green colt who faced many obstacles and yet prevailed.....very impressive.

I would say the only question is what was the quality of the beaten field, which of course we will not know for another 2 months or so.