Originally Posted by RolloTomasi

Instead, he has come along steadily and really has lost nothing of importance by finally losing a race (by the way, did you happen to give up on Azeri after she lost the La Canada?) other than technicolor dreamcoat of hype he's worn since the beginning of this year. Now we have a better idea of where he fits and nothing suggests, given the current makeup of the older horse division, that he won't make more noise in stakes routes at least in CA, maybe even win one or two. At the same time, as more learned posters than ourselves suggested, he may prove to be a top quality sprinter.

Originally Posted by 10 pnt move up

You really are going to compare the loss that Azeri had to Rail Trips? Azeri banged herself out of the gate, got stuck behind a moderate pace, had to deal with traffic, only to just miss against Summer Colony who was a pretty good horse.

Rail Trip lost with a perfect trip yesterday. He is no where near that class of horse.

Originally Posted by 10 pnt move up

Azeri banged herself out of the gate, got stuck behind a moderate pace, had to deal with traffic, only to just miss against Summer Colony who was a pretty good horse.

Originally Posted by RolloTomasi

Sounds like she coulda used a jock switch.

Originally Posted by King Glorious

It's ok that you are stuck in the old ways and can't adapt to the way the game is played today. Conditions just don't mean as much these days. Was it last year when there were hardly any 2yo allowances run at Belmont or something like that so maiden winners often have to go straight to stakes company? You have eyes. You can see that the differences these days between stakes and allowance races is not like used to be. You saw that field yesterday. Was it really what you'd call a grade two level race? Not to me. Without knowing what the name of the race was, that could have easily passed for a Thursday allowance at Hollywood. It was not more stressful simply because of the title and grade. I just happen to think it's silly to waste two or three races getting this supposed foundation and experience (all the good it did him yesterday) when he's probably not going to have more than 6-7 more career races anyway. This is not the game of the past.