If it was any other horse coming off the longest layoff of his career you would say the horse needed one. While it's likely Lava Man is done as a stakes horse, I don't know how you can judge anything off this performance. Certainly you don't want to embarrass him but there isn't any harm in running him again to get a better idea of where he is really at.
Perhaps O'Neill should feed Lava what he is feeding those maidens. The feature race was...interesting.
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