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Originally Posted by The Indomitable DrugS
After winning the Belmont - he was given an insanely long rest of 3 days before he returned to the worktab on June 5th, and again on June 7th, and again on June 9th, and again on June 11th, and again on June 13th, before winning the Dwyer by 4.5 lengths on June 15th.
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This was the part that stood out to me. After horses run in the 12f Belmont these days trainers usually shut their horses down for months. Giving a colt five workouts and then running him in a 10f race - all within two weeks of the Belmont - struck me as a bit shocking even for the 1940s.
On the other hand, Assault seemed to have trouble cracking the time of 2:06 for 10f as a 3yo. Now, I know absolutely nothing about track conditions in the 1940s, but unless they were running these races on the Del Mar polytrack, that doesn't seem particularly fast.