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[Rupert Pupkin]

Originally Posted by The Indomitable DrugS

Cheers to Gerson Racing screwing me.

I picked him on Steve's show before he debuted at Bay Meadows.

He actually entered a maiden race at Hollywood Park a few days earlier and scratched - a race where he figured to go off in the 8-to-1 to 20-to-1 odds range and would have certainly won easily.

Instead of getting to make a real score with him - I got a double digit margin victory going 4.5 furlongs as the 8/5 2nd choice at Bay Meadows - followed up by a walk in the park stakes win at 4/5 at Hollywood.

He was going to be part of an entry at Hollywood that day. He was coupled with The Final Roar. You would have been lucky to get 6-1 that day. The Final Roar was considered the weaker part of the entry and he ended up going off at 9-1.

I loved the way he ran at Bay Meadows. I didn't like the fact that he didn't switch leads in the stakes race at Hollywood. He switched perfectly in the race at BM. When a horse who knows how to switch won't switch, that's not a good sign.