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Originally Posted by Dunbar

You make a lot of good points here. I'll make 2 comments.

1. Maybe giving a horse (Flower Alley) 8 months off is a bit too long of a "freshening"!

2. If Lava Man beats The Tin Man, Lava Man will gain little respect from those who don't already respect him. That's because The Tin Man himself won little respect for his awesome Arlington win, and also because the race is in Calif, don't ya' know. Even grass races don't count as a different surface when "Calif" is attached to it. Of course, if The Tin Man beats Lava Man, it will confirm the doubters' suspicions. And if both lose, whoa, it'll be a gloater's paradise.

--Dunbar

very very true on point 2