Travers Buzz: Quality Road a yes..

[the_fat_man]

Originally Posted by Scav

I am surprised that more people haven't talked about the Amsterdam being a possible workout for the Travers. Trainers use races all the time to get their horses fit and maybe he needed an actual race to get him primed...

Assume the horse wasn't fit. Then you have to deal with it running that monster effort and needing one?

But someone needs to explain to me how blazing 6.5F gets him fit to run 10F.

He probably has enough natural speed for 10F, so I don't get having to tighten him up or put some speed into him. There's still the stamina factor.

I think that NYRA will step up and do the 'right' thing for the Travers: soup up the track, get it favoring frontrunners, and anticipate some 'monster' efforts from the kickback specialists.

If you add the track bias factor to the 'tightner' and the 'elixir' factors, you have a formula for certain success.