Really Shug

[freddymo]

Originally Posted by RolloTomasi

If you want to distill it to a fine point....Fort Bragg is progressing & General Jim is on the decline in terms of the 3yo dirt sprint division.

What's the excuse for the Woody Stephens performance?

Why is facing marginally good turf horses---again, its a consolation race for horses not good enough for the Sar Derby--more perplexing then facing those 3 triple digit Beyer horses I mentioned in a Grade 1 3 over weeks from now?

Also, now you're saying "he can win" & yet your confused why they would enter him for a $500k pot against non-Grade 1 horses?

Have a brain...

Decline? The colt ran a 100 fig on dirt 75 days ago. I get it that Stephens was ugly. He barely has missed a work since the Stephens. It's an 850k Into Mischief owned by a guy with a trillion dollars. Who the heck cares about the pot? They need a G1 dirt race to make him a stallion in Ky, not a pot. He will be no better than 5th choice in a G2 HOF pot. What is some cinch? Look, it's a strange move. That doesn't mean it can't work, but I am not crazy thinking this is weird. Win the Swale with a 90 improve to a 100 in the Pat Day bomb in the Stephens and off to the lawn to be 6th choice in a field of 10.

I root for Shug, has he had a winner yet at SPA?