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Originally Posted by RolloTomasi
Just to clarify, then, you were wrong.
And yet winning the SA Derby over King of the Roxy and Sam P. makes him a good dirt horse? Isn't it just as likely that Heatseeker (by synthetic sire extraordinaire Giant's Causeway) regressed in the Oaklawn Handicap, thus getting nipped by this 2nd rate horse that he normally has 3 or 4 lengths on?
Or did he have valid excuses in the Kentucky Derby, Belmont, and BC Classic, his other important dirt races?
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Believe me, there is no way in the world that I would ever try to make an argument for Tiago being a good horse. I don't think he is. But I do, however, believe that he's shown himself to be much better on real dirt than on synthetics.
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