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Originally Posted by RolloTomasi
The Strub Series always looks like its gonna be crap at this point in the year. It's certainly lost a lot of luster in the last 10 years, mostly thanks to a cutback in the distances of the races and the horrible Santa Anita stakes schedule, which offers other older horse stakes the same weekend as the Strub events, not to mention the preposterous Sunshine Millions.
But it's always come through as a platform for a couple top class horses, a couple of shippers, a couple of off-the-turf Europeans, a few up-and-comers, and a bunch of comebackers that dropped out of sight in the winter and spring. So in that regard, it will at least be interesting, and possibly, produce some good betting races.
Last year yielded subsequent Grade 1 winners Latent Heat, Spring At Last, and Midnight Lute (1-2-3 in the Malibu) and BC Classic contender Awesome Gem took the San Fernando.
In addition to Ravel and Tiago, we might add Great Hunter, Zanjero, Medici Code, Ten A Penny, Notional, Major Pleasure, Le Grand Trois, Idiot Proof, and whatever else next year.
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