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Originally Posted by CSC
Candy Ride had his problems, his has been pretty live. Perhaps more than anything he and Lute are most simular in they ran sporadically but when they ran healthy they put up numbers that you don't often see. 120+ beyers.
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Not quite the same. Candy Ride, as an first-half half of the year 3yo in Argentina, Sept. to Dec., won his maiden, stepped up to a G1 vs other 3yos, the Clasico San Isidro, winning by 8, then stepped up again to run in the big international mile race in the Carlos Pellegrini meeting against his elders and beat them by 8. (This is roughly equivalent to a 3yo winning the Met Mile.) This caught the eye of overseas buyers and the colt was sold to North America. He was given 6 months to acclimatize and came back in mid-2003, when he won an allowance race, the American H (G2) and the Pacific Classic (G1). Only THEN was his career interrupted by physical problems. The earlier gap was due to the change of hemispheres.