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Giacomo's Jockey Ready for Mounting Attention
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New shooters in the Preakness will include Maryland-based Malibu Moonshine and Scrappy T, and recent stakes winner Hal's Image.
Pletcher, the Eclipse Award winning trainer last year, was shut out again in his fifth try at the Derby. He found the whole affair, with the amazing long shots lighting up the board, inscrutable.
"That was the easiest $1.7 million superfecta I ever hit," he joked. "It's such a hard race to figure out. It's like a lottery situation; it's so hard to win. That's one thing Giacomo's going to do -- let everyone think they've got a chance."
Frankel agreed.
"In our lifetime, there will always be 20-horse fields in the Derby now," he said. "They say some of these horses don't belong. Everybody belongs."
Zito had a reputation for being a Derby master, having won the race twice. Two of his owners, George Steinbrenner and Charlotte Weber, took their horses from their original trainers and put them in Zito's barn.
With first-time trainers Barclay Tagg, John Servis and now Shirreffs having their horses blanketed in roses the past three years, any mystique about there being a special formula to winning the Derby is gone for good.
"It would have been 2 million to one Zito and Todd Pletcher wouldn't have been in the first five," Closing Argument's trainer Kiaran McLaughlin said.
