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Boy I swear, every year it’s the same mess. A horse wins one Derby prep and folks hammer the futures pool like they just saw Pegasus flap down outta heaven and autograph the saddle towel. Colt wins the Risen Star Stakes and BOOM — straight to 9-1 in the futures for the Kentucky Derby. Not 19-1. Not “let’s think about this.” Nine to one. Like he just cured a disease on the gallop-out. Paladin didn’t exactly part the Red Sea down there. He struggled to get by Chief Honcho. And

This Saturday’s Pegasus card is the nutz , y’all. Big ol’ fields, big ol’ races, and enough tricky little dilemmas to make you dust off them number-two pencils and grab a clipboard. This ain’t a lean-back card. This is a sit up straight and pay attention card. And like always, turf racing is sittin’ there like the quiet kid in class who actually did the homework. Half these horses got that little (d) next to their name for workin’ on the turf around the dogs, and most folks