Perfect Drift in 18 minutes

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Originally Posted by SentToStud

Aside from getting a speed fig, can someone please tell me what was good or promising about Perfect Drift's race? He passed a cheap fading forward running horse and Thousand Words who didn't run especially well.

To me, he just sucked along and got a little piece without contending at all.

Glad he's back and all but he didn't finish in front of much.

In the end it is simply a glass half full/glass half empty scenario with this horse. For those encouraged you had a 9 year old horse coming off an 11 month layoff running in a spot not really his specialty...a grade 1 one mile turf race. He is now in the barn of a pretty well established top notch trainer. To those they saw this horse run less than 3 lengths behind 3 really good turf horses this year in which the winning time was a 1:33.44 mile clip. WE look at the very high quality of the horses he ran behind.

For those not imprsessed, they saw a 9 year old horse finishing 4th ahead of 3 suspect horses and surface and trainer didn't really matter much. They saw a horse who never could beat good horses...still can't beat good horses, and will only run good enough to occasionally pick up a check.

To each his own pretty much. I am simply hoping he continues to run well with Mandella the remainder of the year.