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Old 03-30-2008, 11:28 AM
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Originally Posted by CSC
True, many horses have run 1 week prior to the 2 mile Melbourne Cup prepping in 1 1/2 races stake races. If they did that here, the Trainer would be submitted to supply a specimen for possible drug use...It's amazing how sturdy their horses are over there. First time I noticed that I was blown away and then we have horses running 6 times over a yr and complaining of hard campaigns. Doesn't make sense does it?
A couple of years ago, the winner of the Beverly D at AP ran in a 9-10F race the week before at 'toga.... tossed her due to that and the horse burned me bigtime. Angara cost me the pick 4 that day.
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