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The trifecta of insanity:

Step #1: Employ Rajiv Maragh to ride your one-dimensional closer for the first time in a dirt route

Step #2: Add blinkers to sharpen his speed - because you wouldn't want him to relax.

Step #3: Instruct Rajiv to send him early and try and press the pace.

Yes - this brilliant gameplan only resulted in a 22 length defeat in a race where the winner got just a 106 Beyer... yet, Lukas isn't satisified with that. He wants to try him in sprints now:

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Mine That Bird raced closer to the pace than he had in his previous starts, but he still finished last. Trainer D. Wayne Lukas said he may shorten Mine That Bird up in distance to seven furlongs or a mile.

"We got part of what we wanted, but we didn’t get the finish," Lukas said. "I loved the way he laid into the race and showed that speed and everything. That was a new dimension for him, but we didn’t get the finish we wanted. I may try him short. . . . We’re trying different things. He’s a gelding; we’re going to have to make him useful."

I'm surprised he didn't try to wheel him back into a steeplechase race.

This horse is 1-for-12 dating back to his 2yo season - with two defeats at Sunland Park and one at Mountaineer. He's finished 5th or worse in each of his last 5 races. His only win over that stretch - a 6.75 length Kentucky Derby score under a rail skimming Borel ride after losing contact with the field early on.

Take him way back early - let him settle - and if the pace is fast up front - he'll be rolling by all the stoppers late. Not exactly hard to figure out this horses's game.

Just blackening his form For Churchill Downs when Calvin gets aboard and he goes off at 60-1 in the classic.

Sounds like he wants to run in the Dirt Mile instead of the Classic. I think Borel and Super Saver might team up in the Dirt Mile.

Lukas should employ Borel on Mine That Bird in the BC Marathon and run Wow Wow Wow as a rabbit in the race to set the pace up for him.

Hell, if he can convince the owners of Mine That Bird that he's the best trainer for them - he should be able to convince Mary Lou Whitney that Wow Wow Wow has been dying to run a dirt marathon.

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Originally Posted by The Indomitable DrugS (Post 692593)

How was that horse not claimed two back for 25k?

He came into the race off of 6 straight thumpings. That whole don't try to catch a falling knife theory would apply.

I thought Tidal Pool's debut on the turf was a success though.

"I got a lil change in my pocket goin jingle lingle ling" Same thing with Bird, one hit wonder.

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Originally Posted by Honu (Post 692740)

"I got a lil change in my pocket goin jingle lingle ling" Same thing with Bird, one hit wonder.

His race in the Belmont wasn't bad - he was there with Summer Bird at 12 furlongs after making a menacing move. Also a 2nd place finish in the Preakness ahead of Musket Man after he got a big pace setup thanks to Big Drama and RA mixing it up upfront.

I'm not pretending he's any good. But take him way back, get him relaxed, and he will pass everything that stops in front of him.

Super Saver might be even more of a one-hit wonder. Besides the Derby, where is his other good race?

Marathon seems most realistic.

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Originally Posted by Honu (Post 692740)

"I got a lil change in my pocket goin jingle lingle ling" Same thing with Bird, one hit wonder.

Tell me you didn't just make a Georgia satellites reference

Lukas showed with Azeri how clueless he can be about a horse. She wanted two turns, 8f-9f. So he ran her around one turn on Derby weekend (because it was a G1 and the 2-turn race was a G2), ran her at Belmont (all races in her range 1 turn), ran her at 10f. Now he has a one-paced horse with stamina ala Giacomo and wants to run him at a mile; better have a battalion of sacrificial sprinters to run 44-second half-miles ahead of him, like Giacomo had in the San Diego.

Someone is clearly forgetting the "Hippy Hippy Shake."