He's in the TG Derby package and it is difficult (for me) to see that in the
Wood he earned a TG # two points faster than his stablemate, who nailed him on
the wire. Twas a costly nail.
Dynamic One's ground loss aided number in the Wood actually makes him one of
the faster contenders in this year's Derby. After all these years of trying to
ignore raw time (knowing that the track maintenance crew has more of a hand in
this than trainers, vets or chemists), I am still trying to figure out if it
was trotters or pacers who finished the Wood in 1:54.49
I hope either that Dynamic One runs a bad Derby (hey its TAP) or skips Derby
and runs in the Peter Pan to get a race over Belmont. Or goes right to the
Belmont off works. Because if DO is standing in the gate for the 2021 Belmont,
no matter what his performance figures, no matter what he has done between his
Wood runner up finish and June 5, 2021, I will be betting him to win.
DO's sire is Union Rags, beaten favorite in the 2012 Kentucky Derby, winner of
2012 Belmont Stakes.
The TG sheet for DO shows the dam to be Beat the Drums, who was winless and
before DO had produced two runners who made very little impact.
Further pedigree investigation reveals that the dam of Beat The Drums is Storm
Flag Flying. The dam of Storm Flag Flying is My Flag. The dam of My Flag is
Personal Ensign. That means that the second, third and fourth dams of Dynamic
One won multiple stakes at Belmont and oh by the way each of them was a
Breeders Cup winner.
