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Originally Posted by 10 pnt move up
Socal horses cant win on the road, you know that.
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For every Manistique, Lava Man, Rock Hard Ten ... there is one who actually moved up quite a bit coming East.
As far as sprinters go - for a long time it was the rule they'd move up rather than the exception. As far as turf horses go, it was more the exception than the rule.
Now that they have synthetic tracks out there ... you get the horses who come off of them and run one .. occasionally two ridiculious huge races on dirt .. and all of a sudden the "synthetic bounce" seems to ruin them. Or so Jerry Brown says.
Springside, Tough Tiz's Sis, Well Armed, Black Seventeen, I Want Revenge, etc.
And no, Pioneer Ofthe Nile doesn't qualify .. his 2nd in the Derby was hardly a big effort .. but he did call it a career after his next one.