Classic Empire

[freddymo]

Originally Posted by Kasept

Horses are individuals. Does every horse balk behind the gate when loading? By your reasoning, if one does, all should.

Casse, who after re-watching the race agrees that the gate was the culprit, told me this morning that Classic Empire worked in blinkers and went super.

Not sure I remotely concur with your analogy. We see tons of horses continually balk behind gate and be unsettled, washout etc. their whole careers and still be successful. We witnessed a denial to run from this "individual", lets just say this herd animal elected not to advance with the herd. If you and Casse are OK with suggesting that a misplaced gate was the culprit, OK. We both watch a lot of races, we rarely see a complete refusal from a horse albeit a 2 year old with a few successful starts. As for Casse telling you" he went super". I think we should keep in mind (a little) that this is a valuable colt and being 100% forthcoming MIGHT or MIGHT NOT be the agenda. Not suggesting Casse is lying at ALL, just I would take a wait in see approach. Baffert told us Tap It Rich was OK working great yada yada.

I am a fan I want to see him do well! Will see