southwest stakes 2/19

[Samarta]

Originally Posted by ArlJim78

I found the comment below posted on the Fox Hill Farm forum. As I understand it the person who wrote this is an assistant. My question is regarding the "struggling with the surface" comment. It looks like HS has been at Oaklawn and training well since the beginning of the year. So today he struggled with the surface?

At least it was classy in the way that they acknowledged the winner and didn't have a lot of sour grapes about the whole deal.


"Hard Spun seems to have come out of the race in good order. He was scoped and that came back fine.

It'd be nice to find someone or something to blame -- to have a firm excuse -- but that's simply not the case here. It seemed apparent from the break that what we were watching wasn't the Hard Spun we knew -- he has more speed than that. Mario agreed, reporting that he knew immediately that Hard Spun was struggling with the surface.

The important thing is that Hard Spun came out of the race well -- we'll fight another day.

Congratulations to the connections of Teuflesberg on a very nice race."

That person is Porter's assistant and web site administrator.