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Originally Posted by blackthroatedwind
Baloney about the fig being a red herring if you watched the race.
The simple fact is that a completely different horse showed up today than ran at Monmouth in August. Overall, his trip was fine. Whatever minor trouble he caused himself early was completely mitigated by the perfect trip he had after that.
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less about the "trip" and more about looking for talent and quality of the animal. The way he made the headway, the way he looked in the stretch, the way he looked next to those other horses.