What’s your racing pet peeve? Mine is horseplayers who will claim everyone is cheating, the jockey the picture, the track instead of just admitting they can’t pick a winner. Quit blaming everyone else dbag & just look in the mirror lol
@RacingRachelM Tweeted this right after the Derby and people told me I was being a sore loser and they would see me tomorrow. Well a few weeks later, we found what was going on. In 17 years of watching races, I have never seen any horse do what Medina did. #rebreak
@scanman614 @RacingRachelM No reasonable person can seriously believe the rash ointment had any effect on his performance. No one challenged Medina Spirit for the lead, so it's perfectly understandable how he won. There was no "rebreak" and no need to spin up wild explanations out of your own imagination.
@NagleMary @scanman614 @RacingRachelM MOST people, i believe likely even BB, found it pretty fucking “wild” that Medina Spirit won the Derby. There certainly was no pre race mention of that feeling going in to the race
@kathrynpapp @scanman614 @RacingRachelM Medina Spirit had no target on his back, so the other jockeys were content to give him the lead. The fact that he was under the radar is what allowed him to pull off his gate to wire trip. In fact, Baffert may have undersold him on purpose leading up to the race. It worked well!