with that stride of his he definetly needs Turf. He has that stiff right front, but he really reaches out with a good stride length. Right now It isn't so much of a handicap, but you don't like stride irregularities.
As well as he handles the turfway course, he may add the Kentucky Cup Classic @ Turfway in september to his plans. (the race where Hard Spun and Street Sense faced off last season)
Mott should have him back to that nice turf form for some grass races.
If they wanted to be very unorthodox, they could have sent him out West, to Mike Mitchell. Not only would he handle any possible pain in that right front, but if his Turfway form was an indication of his synthetic form, he could do well over there and point for a race like the BC (synthetic)"dirt" mile.
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