Went The Day Wrong
 

Hopefully the "dirt experiment" is over.....Possibly another example of turfers liking the Churchill Downs dirt.
Unless he got hurt, he never lifted a hoof

As it did for 9 other horses in the race. So we are to conclude they are not dirt horses?

Make it stop, please!

He not only finished 10th of 11...he looked really really bad doing it...watch the blimp replay.
He made it stop pretty good !!! and ahh...Thank You...

He ran horrible. He also ran on 2 weeks rest after running a big race in one of the toughest races run on dirt in the world. To conclude that he is turf only horse off one race is ludicrous. Creative Cause got his a$$ handed to him by the 2 best three year old route horses in training today too, is he not a dirt horse?

Watch the replay....CC at least had the appearance of a horse running in a race...with quite another gap back to Rickey D's horse. Bodemeister ran 6 races in a day and a half, the one before this in the same race that WTDW ran in...What's his excuse for runnin lites out?

WTDW will do much better on the grass at Saratoga? Well, he'd better run on something where these 2 ain't cuz that plan's not working out too well, and grass would be good....but he'd better up his game there too, cuz there are TONS of 3yo grassers out there licking their chops

You said you hope the dirt experiment was over as if the connections are crazy for running him on dirt. Today's performance while not very good does not mean the connections made a bad choice. If anything I think they should have skipped the Preakness and ran in the Belmont. But they found out today is that there are two horses much better than theirs.

Creative Cause is a nice horse but was soundly defeated by the top two and not in their tier.

I guess your avatar represents the Monday morning quarterback you have been after the race was run today.

Can somebody tell me about this "good race" he ran in the Derby? I've watched it several times and all I see is a well beaten clunk up 4th after a very fast pace.

I think some Americans just bow down to foreigners. Clambaked is one of them.

I admit I got tricked by that race and Doug was right to call me out on it. That said, compared to this crop I would not conclude that this is a turf only horse whose connections are wrongly running their horse in these races which was the premise of this thread.

That's what I've been saying. Said the same about Dullahan in both the BC Juvenile and the Derby. We'll see how he runs at Belmont, but he won't be on top of my tickets.

I'm wondering if the shipping back and forth contributed to Creative Cause sliding back a bit, he was right there with these horses his last two, that ship back and forth was so unnecessary.

Didn't Bode ship as well? I just think he got hurt being closer to the pace yesterday and more importantly he's a notch below the other two.

Believe Bode stayed at Churchill and shipped up from Louisville.

I didn't like Creative Cause shipping back to Cali, but it obviously didn't bother him him at all.

Creative Cause was well beaten but he did get a 102 BSF for the Preakness, which matched his best in the San Felipe.

Most people who own horses don't consider going from 5th to 3rd 'sliding back" when you are running in similar company.

CC went back to Cali while Bode went straight to Baltimore.

I think Creative Cause is just a cut below. No shame in that.

I thought I noticed quite a bit of sweating on WTDW right before he was loaded in the gate. I had him boxed with IHA and knew it was over for that exacta.

I still think Union Rags should have run in the Preakness and Went the Day Well should have gone in the Belmont instead, but what do I know?

Except he got beat by 9, considering how close he has been to these two prior, I would consider that sliding back. I also
stated the ship may have been the reason, I know Bode and IHA stayed put, hence the reason for my post
to begin with.

Agreed Laharge but once a horse is clearly not going to contend with the top two there is no reason to ride him hard to be closer to them. He had 3rd locked up so there was no reason for him to be ridden hard late, though if he had, he might have been closer.

Two weeks rest, plus two long flights could have caused a regression. I think CC might be better than what he showed on Sat. relative to the top pair.

Sure, it could be a reason, but isn't it more likely he was beaten 9 lengths because he pressed a superior horse too early?

Creative Cause got a 95 Beyer Speed figure for his Preakness effort.

Thank you for the correction. I should stop relying on DRF message boards without double checking. :)

I never got the fascination with Ice Box either.

DRF doesn't have a message board.

There are comments sections at the bottom of every article. So yeah, not technically a message board. But you nailed me so good for you.

Those are comments. Most of them pretty uninformed. As you have offered.

This is a message board.

So their more informed?

They're...not their.

I met you on the old DRF message board....so maybe you're right.

By the way, I had a nice chat with your idol Saturday night. You never came up.

ha, funny.....did you let him know his career was built on Cadillac's? Yea I remember that one.

You can still get to the old drf message board, can't post but last I checked you could read the hilarity.

He's such a good guy it's impossible to ever be anything but nice to him.

While watching WTDW's action down the backside, it was clear he wasn't handling the surface. I expect him to bounce back and contend later in the summer in the big races.

On the flip side, Creative Cause moved great over the surface. I think the two flights took the starch out of his finish. I was worried about that, but still included him, which now seems wasteful. Had he stayed at Churchill or moved to Pimlico early, he probably would have been a more respectable four or five lengths back at the end.