southwest stakes 2/19

[Samarta]

Originally Posted by merasmag

care to elaborate?

One of the reasons they said they decided not to go to the Risen Star was because he developed a fever and missed a couple days of training. Jones said it was no big deal, just a little cough and he was fine.....the thing that kills me, is there was all this talk about how he loved the surface, how he was 100% (which I don't think is a good thing in Feb) and this race was a stepping stone....now he got a bad trip, Pino said he didn't like the surface, had too much ground to make up....special horses with a good jock create their trips....maybe he'll end up in the Derby but there has to be a lot of improvement.