Reply #115: Yes, "Noble's Promise" - and running 5th in the Derby is not too shabby -

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It's a horror of a race, with twenty in the herd. I thought maybe the jock sent him a second or so too early, but that's not a professional opinion, and I could well be dead wrong onit. It might have been the distance, might have been having an infection a short time before, might have been he just ran out of gas in the stress of that particular race - it's a big deal for a horse to be able to win at 1 1/4 mile at those speeds.

But he showed he's what they call "a nice horse" (a big complement) - and there are plenty of 1 1/8 mi races with good purses if he can't manage the extra 1/8. Believe me, he's already outrun what any of the Sheiks and Princes and Bluebloods and "Old Money" in racing think proper for a $10,000 colt.

Hurrah for his team of owners, I hope they had the ride of their lives going to the Derby and many more great days with this "cheap" colt!