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Originally Posted by Calzone Lord
Those are 3-year-old sprinters.
A lot of potentially top class 3yo sprinters are ruined by their connections who try to impose their will on these horses to make them routers.
In rare cases (Afleet Alex for instance) -- trainers can be successful on imposing their will and transforming a horse who really just wants to sprint into becoming a top class route horse.
In some cases -- horses will survive their failed attempts to be made into a router and revert back to sprinting with great success. Groovy, Artax etc. etc. etc.
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Artax was far from being just a sprinter.
He was probably a better router actually.