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Originally Posted by Cannon Shell
Not totally disagreeing with anything stated before but the Santa Anita Handicap has been in decline since the advent of the Dubai Classic.
Tell me again what top horses Student Council defeated at Del Mar? That was a terrible group for a race of that stature regardless of surface. Didn't he follow it up with another graded win on dirt?
I find it hard to believe that top class turf races, in the East especially, are effected more by synthetic tracks than by poor scheduling by tracks who ignore other tracks stakes schedules and a few high profile trainers that control a great many of the better turf runners wishes to keep them apart.
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He beat an over the top Lava Man and held off the late charge of Awesome Gem who finished 3rd in the BC Classic.Student Council won the G2 Hawthorne Gold Cup in 9/07. Awesome Gem and Student Council both ran in the San Antonio at SA on 2/9/08 and AG was 3rd while SC was 5th.The Pacific Classic was run in 2:07 1/5 which is absurd for a Grade 1 race run on a sunny day and dry track. The Blue Grass of 07 was another ridiculously slow final time. Both races were run on Polytrack.
Didn't these "synthetic surfaces" originate in England?