Lost In The Fog is a victim of his own reputation in some ways. Too much is expected from him. If one looks back over the last 25 years, you will see that the top sprinters lose often. It is so easy to lose a sprint race. All it takes is a bad break or even just a bad post position. I agree that LITF has not beat a quality field, and may never do so. He only has to do that once, and coupled with his other exploits, his career would be very satisfying. I feel sure he will be retired soon...again a victim of his own reputation because his connection fear his stud fee will suffer if they let him lose again. Assuming the horse is sound, I'd give him a short break, then bring him back in a couple easy prep races, maybe on his home track, then shoot for the moon in the BC sprint as his last race. Who knows, he might get lucky and go out on top.
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