he did it in the florida derby too

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Ice box would seem to be a come from behind in the mud kind of guy. He did it at Florida and ALMOST nailed it in Kentucky. He almost didn't in Florida and, if you watch, you can see his head was waaay in the air for the first half of his run. I can't remember seeing that before. I've seen them start gawking at the stands or zigzagging when the jockey has put the petal to the metal, but I don't remember ever seeing one with his nose in the air like that while running dead out. Jumpers do that when boxing toward a hurtle, but I think what's up with Ice Box is that he's just a bit greener than he should be right now. Probably a regular neon-brained colt who's just not in the groove yet.

Or, don't listen to me. I've always been a sucker for the come-from-behind winners... I mean waaaaay behind. It takes all kinds of horse to do that. Granted, this usually means that they can't do it if there's too much speed for too much distance, but the ones who do these in such hot company can do it any day of the week.

I've spent an hour looking for the most spectacular of these wins ever, but I'm going senile and can't remember the name or the race. It was huuuuuge... and I can see it in my mind's eye like it was yesterday... but I haven't been able to dig up the specifics enough to share it here.
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Well, and I don't like his legs. He's got a heck of a lot of that Native Dancer weak legs syndrome blood in him too... not forgetting that even where Native Dancer wasn't in the mix, the same stallions and broodmares who went into Native Dancer went into the other horses in his bloodline... and... you can see it in his legs.
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