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Originally Posted by King Glorious
Santa Anita.
As a 2yo, I would not run him beyond 6f at all but I'd run him often, maybe 6-8 times.
As a 3yo, assuming he progressed with each start and showed me enough to continue on with him, I'd go (according to the 2006 racing dates):
San Miguel-6f Jan 8 at Santa Anita
San Vicente-7f Feb 12 at Santa Anita
Swale-7f Mar 4 at Gulfstream
Private Terms-8f Mar 25 at Laurel
Derby Trial-8f Apr 29 at Churchill
In my opinion, five races is enough to get a horse plenty fit for the Derby. Also, I'm not a big believer in a horse having to go 9f first to see if he can go 10f. If he can't show me enough in two tries at 8f to convince me that he can go further, I need to back up at that point. I personally feel that any trainer worth his weight in salt should be able to tell if a horse can go 10f off of two 8f races. A lot of people these days feel that it's not good to have a horse run that close to another race but it seemed to do ok for Don't Get Mad a couple of years ago when he ended up fourth in the Derby after running in the Derby trial. It also worked well for plenty of horses back in the day and I don't know of any reason why it couldn't still work. I think it's good to get in a good 8f work prior to a race and with the horse having been off for a month prior to that, it would be a good spot to take some of the edge off yet keep him sharp while getting paid for it should he finish in the money.
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i guess the squeaky wheel gets the grease. i think this was a fairly interesting idea for a thread, and then this post (which any reasonable person would recognize as the ramblings of a crazy person) takes over the thread and everybody spends 3 pages responding to the insanity.
what a pity.
could we get back to the topic at hand?
i would probably follow lawyer ron's path last year:
risen star
southwest
rebel
arkansas