last I knew they were looking at the Woody Stephens on the Belmont S undercard for T'berg. I have no issue with where she runs him or how often. She owns him! She also rides him every day. Now, I do think that he's better off at G2/G3. In the long run most of the Derby horses in any given year prove to be far below G1.
Were he mine, I'd be looking at races like the "G2/3 Derbies" in W. Virginia, Penn., Ohio etc. Once the Derby prep season destroys a decent % of the crop, those races are often ripe for picking.
As for his slow Blue Grass fractions, it seems that front runners who actually had "normal" early fractions held on BETTER. In fact horses that may be better than T'berg ran slower early and failed. Slowing the pace to (literally) trotting horse time, was not the way to win at KEE.
He's by J'berg so who knows, maybe he can turf. If he likes grass, it may be good for him with his slow starts. Since they usually go slower early and he has rateable speed, he wont have to work as hard as he does on dirt to make the lead.
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