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Originally Posted by Dunbar
Do either of you guys ever admit you were plain wrong?! Yeah, the "aspirin the day before" analogy was "pretty clever". Too bad it had nothing to do with reality.
Corrected by both Cajungator and Rupert, but not a word from either of you about your mis-speaks.
--Dunbar
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I'll have to look into the limits some more and maybe even try calling the racing office to get the full scoop before I am going to claim I mis-spoke. The end result is the PPs show him on Bute in California and off everywhere else so until I get a reasoning for that difference I am not convinced that there is no difference. I thanked Rupert for the info he gave me and I will look further into the issue. This forum would be flooded with additional posts if everyone added an extra post for everytime they mis-spoke.
So then what other explanation is there for him being able to run well at all three California tracks but his three worst defeats are in the three times he left California? I don't believe that the quality of horses he faced outside of California were that much better than the quality of horses in those three races to explain the difference. I don't see the issue being him only liking the rock hard surfaces in California because he has also run so well on the turf. And I am absolutely positive that Lava Man can't recognize where the state boundary of California is and refuses to run hard once he is out of there. So the only remaining theories are that there are different drug standards in California, that he hates shipping, or sheer coincidence. I think the first and second may blend together a bit. O'Neill may know every trick of the trade to beat the system in California but may not know the same tricks while on the road.