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Originally Posted by philcski
3 Derby spots are available versus 2 from the Blue Grass- not to mention the synthetic crap at KEE.
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Big Brown did breeze under-tack on the KEE Polytrack at the April sale last year.
He registered a big stride (almost 26 feet long) - but didn't show a great deal of raw speed - his quarter mile work was in 21.20 seconds.
He was a $60K yearling and sold for $190,000 after that work.
I doubt something like that had much of anything to do with the decision to aim for the Blue Grass - but the horse did get over that stupid surface well enough to think it shouldn't be any concern or excuse.
I need to go over the replays of GP's races today much closer before I come to any strong opinions about this horse.