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Old 05-31-2007, 09:45 PM
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Just had a look at his NZ career...3:2-1-0. He started with a second to nice horse called Pindy (7:3-2-0), then won a maiden by 5 and a decent undercard race on G1 Levin Clasic day at Otaki in November of last year.

So he showed talent here but it sounds like he's really advanced since then! Weird how that happens, another horse who went over was Captain Kurt, who was in the top three 3yos of his year here but hasn't shown much over there, while this horse has improved by miles.

Will be interesting to see how he goes in stakes company.
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Old 06-01-2007, 01:01 PM
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Just had a look at his NZ career...3:2-1-0. He started with a second to nice horse called Pindy (7:3-2-0), then won a maiden by 5 and a decent undercard race on G1 Levin Clasic day at Otaki in November of last year.

So he showed talent here but it sounds like he's really advanced since then! Weird how that happens, another horse who went over was Captain Kurt, who was in the top three 3yos of his year here but hasn't shown much over there, while this horse has improved by miles.

Will be interesting to see how he goes in stakes company.
Big difference in who trains Captain Kurt and Crossing the Line

The only thing I did notice is in his race in NZ that he won by a nose and his race yesterday, he was on the wrong lead for a good part of both stretch runs. With experience I am sure that will change.

If you notice at HP yesterday in the winners circle, trainer John Sadler couldnt put the cell phone down even to take the winners picture. Someone was getting a happy report. I think he has a very nice lightly raced horse.
BC Mile is a long way off.
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Old 06-02-2007, 01:10 AM
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Just found a video of the run, very nice. Can't say I know anything about the opposition though.

Pindy, he only horse who beat him in his NZ career, won nicely in good company today, his 4th win from 8. Too bad I don't bet, I was pretty confident he'd win after reading this thread and he was at 4-1. Ah well.
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Old 06-02-2007, 01:39 AM
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Just found a video of the run, very nice. Can't say I know anything about the opposition though.

Pindy, he only horse who beat him in his NZ career, won nicely in good company today, his 4th win from 8. Too bad I don't bet, I was pretty confident he'd win after reading this thread and he was at 4-1. Ah well.
Was chatting with the former trainer, Hamish Auret on a NZ horse forum and he still owns a majority share in this horse with the breeder Mrs Wilson. He wasnt aware that the horse was getting Lasix for his start. He knows he can go a mile, which I agree with. Will be interesting to see what his next start is. Apparently the horse had minor bleeding in NZ but due to NZ rules he had to sell or race him to US connections. Sounds like by keeping part ownership he was able to do both.
Wish him the best, as it always nice to see talented horses compete well.
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Old 06-02-2007, 02:58 AM
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Yeah if a horse bleeds here they're not allowed to race for 3 months, and if they bleed again after that it's a permanent ban.

Lost a lot of good horses that way.
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