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Originally Posted by RolloTomasi
The question then becomes would he have fired? IIRC, he had been routing in the fall, not sprinting, and also was coming off bad, recent beats at Oak Tree in CA and Aqueduct in NY. Seems like he was a tired horse at that point, not a horse sitting on a BC Sprint win.
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His most recent start before the BC was a 5th by 2 at AQU going a mile, with the winner, Dispersal, going in 132.4
The race before that, he did get his ass kicked, but it was going 8.5 at SA, in which he ran 3rd by 8 to the red hot Present Value and the mighty Rahy. 140 3/5ths was the winning time.
The race before that he won in 133.2 at DMR.
The race before that, also at DMR, he was 2nd by 1/2 to the very underrated Olympic Native. 120 1/5th was the winning time. In third, another whopping eleven lengths back, was Sam Who.
The race before that, also DMR, he won by 3 going 6f in 108 flat.
Yeah, he would have handled Dancing Spree.