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Originally Posted by Rupert Pupkin
Fair enough. But he did win when he shipped to Northern California.
I would actually hold his NY and Florida races against him more if he lost by 3-5 lengths. Then at least I could come up with a hypothesis that makes sense. I could hypotehsize that O'Neil is cheating in some way and he can't do it on the road and the horse regresses by a few lengths on the road. But the horse lost those races by 15 lengths. Even if O"Neil does have some sort of secret edge in California, it's not going to be something that improves the horse by 15 lengths. In addition, I've never heard that the horse is a really nervous horse or a bad shipper. If I heard that he was a really bad shipper and becomes a nervous wreck when he ships, then that could explain his poor perfomances. But since I've never heard that, I just think the horse was either knocked out and/or hurt at the end of the year last year. I know they said his feet were bothering him. I don't know why he ran so bad in Florida. It could have been anything. I don't know why Saint Liam ran so bad in California.
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With the exception of the three races outside of Cali he hasn't run anywhere but Del Mar, Hollywood, or Santa Anita since September of his 3yo season when he ran at Fairplex.
In all three of his races outside the state he tired badly, was stalking the pace early and just didn't have anything in the tank after that. I would think a horse tiring sooner than normal could be associated with meds.