Final Verdict ... Fog Is A Fraud

Originally Posted by Bold Brooklynite

Not gonna be a "next out" ... they'll retire him while they still can round up some gullible investors to form a stallion syndicate.

If they run him again ... they won't be able to con anyone.

Look for the staged "bone chips ... best interest of the horse" press conference by next week.

They couldn't 'con' anyone now or even before the race....this horse won't be a solid commercial stallion until he wins a few more GIs against older horses...he's a freakin' Lost Soldier..Who want to breed to that?...Nobody in the breeding game, I assure you.....He'll race again because his premier value is as a racing prospect and not as stallion...it just is with his pedigree...

[SCUDSBROTHER]

They did not try to rate LITF today.I saw Baze interviewed,and it was not his choice to be off the pace that far early on. No response when asked on the turn.


"He had a quarter crack that really got to bothering him here earlier in the week - at one point we were 50-50 not to run - but he seemed to be going really good on it the last couple of days."

Gilchrist said he will assess Lost in the Fog's condition when he returns to California, but did not rule out the possibility that the Smile may have been the 4-year-old's last race.

[Scav]

LITF is done, just by that statement, he is done. I wonder what type of stud value he has, not sure he would stand in Kentucky, maybe start in Florida

Originally Posted by SCUDSBROTHER

Gilchrist said he will assess Lost in the Fog's condition when he returns to California, but did not rule out the possibility that the Smile may have been the 4-year-old's last race.

Well ... I guess that sort of confirms what I surmised.

Lost Like A Fraud "won" an Eclipse Award ... and he's from the Danzig branch of the Northern Dancer line ... and he's got Secretariat, Ribot, and Native Dancer in his pedigree ...

... that's enough to sweet-talk some eager, wealthy investors into buying into a syndicate. It won't be a $100 million dollar syndicate ... but if you can get $5 million or even $3 million ... that's a heckuva lot more than this fraud will ever win in ungraded stakes races at Golden Gate.

Dontcha think?

Yeah ... it'll be "bone chips" and "for the good of the horse" ... any day now.