I posted this on another forum. What do you guys think if you owned Lava Man?
What would you do if you owned him? Would you
1. Keep him in Cali, since there doesn't seem to be, as of yet, any horse out there who is in the same league as him and just win every major stake in SoCal same as last year.
2. Put him on a full time grass schedule and go after the Arlington Million and Turf Classic. Again has nothing else to prove on dirt in So Cal.
3. Ship him out East for the remaining of the year. Sounds weird but, He obvioulsy has nothing to prove out in Cali, is head and shoulders above the rest. If he ships and stays out East he can put to rest the notion that he can't win outside the state and if he wins some big East Coast races, Stephen Foster, The Whitney etc. he would go down in history as one of the best. Not just a great horse but can't win outside his home state. But one of the ALL TIME GREATS!!!!!!
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