Churchill Sunday 11/12

Originally Posted by bellsbendboy

Hey Cunningham

Two inquiries: 1) If you are close to the Werner camp why not some steam on Grand Escape? He looked best on the paper and ran a huge race.

And 2) Why the knock on Bridgmohan? His mount (Rightplaceintime) had not run competitively since the injury, and in his last he ran very poorly. Thanks.

Like 90% of the horses from that barn, he didn't like the Polytrack - and that was the surface he had been running on in his last few races when turning in bad efforts.....I didn't like the fact that Bridge sent him into what we knew was going to be a quick pace - and an obvious wide, dueling trip for him....that horse can rate...I watched him do it last winter at FG when it looked like he was cut out to be a nice horse....didn't need to shoot to the lead there from post 12...

Grand Escape was steam in his first start last year at FG (I think he lost actually...pps not in front of me) and he was steam when Ronny got him on the grass and we cashed good on him then...Its not that he wasn't liked in the race, it is that I believed him to be better sprinting on the grass....

That allowance race had plenty of speed and it looked like it would soften him up like iot did Asmussen's horse and the favorite.....Remember, steam is like any other advice - you get a lot of it and you have to know when to take it and who to take it from ....deciphering through it is actually more art than science