Bandini and Noble Causeway are evidently mommy's boys as they drive to the finish. Neither yields, but as the colts get closer to the finish line, Noble Causeway begins inch forward. It's gonna be a photo finish.
Scipion is flying from the back carrying his trainer's Racing Form comments that seem to be outright lies [lies are not heavy if they are little white lies]. Scipion wins....oh wait, that's another race.
Noble Causeway wins, Bandini second with Giacomo and Going Wild in a dead heat for third as they run right to the bottom half of their pedigrees.
And Scipion, to whom I am deeply attached naturally because of my connection with his being, is undone. Not his fault. Afterall, his trainer said he should have lost his first couple of races instead of winning that first start to teach him a lesson and get him to mature! His first start as everyone knows saw him descending from the clouds, being so far behind there was not a camerca on earth with that much of a wide angle lens, to win going away.
To prove his trainer's words of the need for a long stretch like Fairgrounds and Churchill Downs to bring out the best in the colt, Bianconi immediately raced him on the pace until he proved he was an ordinary colt that did not have lungs bigger than a 747.
Once he had Scipion down to the level of colt that needed to mature to get good, Scipion had the audacity to fall far off the pace in the Risen Star. Damn, if Scipion didn't fly at the end of that race just like his first start. But wait a minute, Biaconi's assistent trainer now jumped on the bandwagon and said something to the effect that he loves Fair Grounds and its long stretch.
Assistant trainer Pierre Bellocq Jr. is an embarassment with a very good colt. Doesn't he know, the Bloggers will out him and make him eat the words as they google search his previous comments. You just can't lie and get away with anymore if someone cares to correct the record.
How hard is it to look the running lines of Scipion's races and then read the comments in the Thursday March 10th, 2005 article by John Swenson. Lines [or lies] like "Patrick took his time with him and let him develop."
Nope, and not even close. Scipion immediately had to get beaten up in a stakerace [the Cradle I believe they call it]. And did he run from off the pace to use the stretch? Nope, he pressed the pace. Wait a minute, that was just the jockey probably. Certainly no trainer that had a MSW winner fly like that at the end of a race would intentionally run him near the pace and have him explode. Yep, probably the jockey. After all, trainers are smart. Jockeys just do what they want anyway. Yeah, right.
Wait a minute, letting him mature meant that he had to start in an allowance race, get bet and let everyone down when he was used as a presser. Was that the trainer's fault? Nope, just part of the plan to get huge odds in the Risen Star. Yeah, right.
"Patrick had the Louisiana Derby in mind for Scipion all along. In large part because he thought the late-running colt would benefit from the length of the Fair Grounds stretch." Yeah, and I'm scaling Mt. Everest next winter.
What in all probability we have here is a couple of trainers who watch the colt in their charge run two monster races from off the pace. Hmmm, it appears that this horses likes to run at horses. You think? Yep, I'm pretty confident about that. I think I'll run him in the Lousiana Derby where he can use that long stretch to prove me right.
One of three things will happen in the Louisiana Derby. One, Scipion may prove he can't read and do what he want's anyway and that might be to win the Louisiana Derby because he's the best horse and like I said, he can't read. Two, he will press the pace, three to five lengths off the leaders and fail like he has done before and no one will take the blame but most will point to Gary Stevens who apparently thought he was on Seabiscuit. Three, he will get so far behind that the others will have finished before he heads into the stretch [probably an exaggeration], but they go so slow that he would need to run the half in world record time.
And by the way, Noble Causeway wins the photo. Scipion did not make the starting gate at the Derby. He needs more time to mature, you know.
Afterall, none of the foals that were a direct result of my input have ever won the Derby or even been an entrant, though a dam that I helped come into being had her son win the Derby. I am prepared for more disappointment in that race.
