Hard Spun & Belmont Distance

[The Indomitable DrugS]

Originally Posted by Pedigree Ann

I am more suspicious of Asmussen's ability to train a horse properly for 12f. The man comes from the SW QH tradition, like Baffert and Lukas, who depended on the horse's innate talent and class to carry it a distance rather than proper conditioning for longer races.

I laughed! Too funny.

Culin hasn't been asked to a do a thing in the morning since Asmussen got him...he's basically trained him for stamina and endurance since the moment he got him.

When he got the horse about three and a half months ago, he got a horse who'd just won a MSW sprint race in wire-to-wire fashion, in supersonic time.

Through Asmussen's "Quarter horse training" -- he's managed to turn what looked like a speed sprinter/miler, into a deep closing router....who was 13 lengths off the pace in the Preakness, inspite of constant urging from his rider to try to get him to pick it up.