Lethal Heat
 

Is it just me, or did this filly look incredible winning the Santa Paula yesterday?? 3 wins in a month!

It looked like she wasn't even asked. The jockey just sat on her.

Turf to SA synthetic angle strikes again.

She A SUPERWOMAN!!

Abrams is having a good year it seems

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Lethal Heat

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Date: April 10, 2008
Track: SANTA ANITA PARK
Distance: Five Furlongs
Time: 58:60 Handily
Track Condition: Fast
Surface: All Weather Track
Rank: 2/37

I see she won today, looked pretty game!

The Unusual Heats are pros. Keep trying, whatever level they end up in. Folks who have watched Cal racing have known this for several years.

I thought you were talking about the heat at Belmont on Saturday

A very underrated sire. I wonder if the Kentucky farms have made a play for Unusual Heat. Jason Blewitt really missed it when he said in the pre-race commentary to the Acorn that Golden Doc A, herself a daughter of Unusual Heat, had "no pedigree."

he misses a lot...

he may have missed the pedigree part, but if the point he was making was that she wasn't a good play he was right on the money. talk about getting smoked.

did she really have a chance though ? no set up at all for her. i thought she was the least likely winner of the group, the top 3 all have more talent

actually some people thought it set up for her because other than her the race was all speed and she was a closer.

honestly I thought she had no shot and was way overmatched.

She wasn't overmatched, no pace, she ran well in the KY Oaks, had distance limitations there though.

I should reword that, overmatched is a stretch, she is a notch below IMO.

whatever you want to call it, she didn't exactly hang with the field, losing ground at every point of call, she finished over 30 lengths back.

but this brings up an excellent question for the board:

WHY DIDN'T DESORMEAUX PULL-UP GOLDEN DOC A DURING THE RACE?
she lost ground throughout and was hopelessly beaten. he had no horse turning for home. didn't he consider that something might have been amiss? After all I was told on the other thread that he did the correct thing with Big Brown, well then isn't this the wrong thing? it looks like he at least let her run to the wire. of course Golden Doc A isn't worth 50 million so maybe thats the difference.

I think somebody may have mentioned on the other thread that he pulled her up quickly after the wire and her connections were not happy. But I want to know why he didn't pull her up DURING the race like he did Big Brown.

good point jimmy

while it is a good point and I have thought the same, the fact is GDA is not valued at 50 million dollars

edit: didnt read entire thread, you mentioned that

I could be wrong about this, but don't you have to finish to be eligible for purse money?

Very good possible point, and 4th was still worth some loot in that race