As always you must take the situation into consideration. Todays breakdown was a horse who has done nothing but drop in its brief career for a trainer that is 0 for 36 on the year. Yesterday was a banner day for Catalano/Calabrese as they got what they wanted by getting 2 horses claimed off of them that were both dropping on suspicious circumstances. The fact that both brokedown would seem to me to be more of a damnation of these individuals than any track surface. In yesterdays 6th the horse in question was 3/5 dropping to 5k off of a 10k conditioned win. He was claimed for 25k 2 starts back. In the 9th the horse had been waited out of jail and dropped to the bottom. This was this horses third hard drop in a row.
It is unfortunate but these three were prime canidates to have had something drastically wrong with them going into the race.
|