Ron Flatter

Problem is the Kentucky Derby is a mile and a quarter.

He looked like a horse who could go a mile and an eighth.

And that was what you have happened an awful lot of times with Kentucky Derby horse, that extra furlong that they've never gone before.

That ends up being where the rubber meets the road.

And in his case, it didn't.

And that was what happened.

He just gassed out and, uh,

Also, maybe just how much work he had to do leading up to the race.

And that was that.

That's part of the build for it.

That's part of the challenge.

They do that on purpose.

They don't want the three-year-olds to do a mile and a quarter before they get to the Kentucky Derby.

Most of them prep a mile and an eighth.

Some of them who go through Louisiana go a mile and three-sixteenths, and that's kind of our golden tempo.

In fact, went a mile and three-sixteenths last race before he went to

win in the Kentucky Derby.

So that's just kind of how the magic of it.

Well, what we were told was that it was a rigorous campaign to get to and win the Kentucky Derby.

They felt like he wasn't a horse who could come back successfully in two weeks.