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Originally Posted by oracle80
Agreed,
he was pushed hard to make a race he had no right to be in. Despite not having the proper foundation for that race, he ran an amazing second place.
And it wasn't Nick's idea either.
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He would have obviously been better off running in the King's Bishop than the Travers, but the truth of the matter is that he shouldn't have run in either. He should have still been at the farm letting the splint heal. They were working on that ankle right up to the Travers. My friend told me that on Travers day you could see that the ankle was all shaved and they had been working on it.
If they would have given him all the time he needed, he wouldn't have been ready to run until December. If you give a horse 3-4 months at the farm, they're not going to be ready to run for 6-7 months. They would have missed all the big races in the Fall and they didn't want to do that. They should have done that because he could have made all the big races this year. Instead he ran once and that was it.