I just hate The Pamplemousse's stride and will not be using him. As for Pioneerof the Nile, it's not so much that he debuted on turf that's a red flag. Rather, it's that despite his NY connections, he wasn't entered in any of the east coast dirt stakes for two-year-olds. Not only that, he went straight from turf to synthetic, then shipped out west for more synthetic, where Zayat had previously made a big show of not running his horses, and stayed there. It's one thing to debut a horse on turf. It's another to run twice on turf, then go to synthetic, then ship across the country to continue running on synthetic when the rest of your stock is running here, on dirt.
|