8/24 (DMR): Pac. Classic; DMR Mile; Pat O'Brien; Rancho Bernardo

cowgirlintexas · #1 08-25-2008, 12:13 AM

Just watched the replay of the 8th with Midnight Lute..What the heck happend with this horse? He just kinda ran around the track..Never showed anything..Heard Baffert talk about him Friday on ATR and was saying how great of a horse he was,etc. etc..The best he's trained...Sure did'nt look like much today

ateamstupid · #2 08-25-2008, 12:25 AM

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Originally Posted by cowgirlintexas

Just watched the replay of the 8th with Midnight Lute..What the heck happend with this horse? He just kinda ran around the track..Never showed anything..Heard Baffert talk about him Friday on ATR and was saying how great of a horse he was,etc. etc..The best he's trained...Sure did'nt look like much today

He was really washy, and he grabbed a quarter during the race.

Danzig · #3 08-25-2008, 07:43 AM

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He was really washy, and he grabbed a quarter during the race.

hope it wasn't too nasty, i heard them talking about it on the program-that he had some bleeding, etc.

CSC · #4 08-25-2008, 09:08 AM

I completely disagree, if being behind horses is a bad trip. Then we would have bad trips galore in every race.

Okay if its true he grabbed a quarter that might have affected his performance abit.

However, I think any time a horse trained by a trainer like Bob Baffert is laid up for 9 months and reappears on poly instead of Saratoga where he ran the lights out last year, there should be a sniff of skeptism in the air.

Indian Charlie · #5 08-25-2008, 12:44 PM

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Originally Posted by CSC

I completely disagree, if being behind horses is a bad trip. Then we would have bad trips galore in every race.

Okay if its true he grabbed a quarter that might have affected his performance abit.

However, I think any time a horse trained by a trainer like Bob Baffert is laid up for 9 months and reappears on poly instead of Saratoga where he ran the lights out last year, there should be a sniff of skeptism in the air.

Did you watch the race? He literally had nowhere to go for most of the race and the jock didn't even try on him.

RolloTomasi · #6 08-25-2008, 09:15 PM

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Did you watch the race? He literally had nowhere to go for most of the race and the jock didn't even try on him.

Gomez seemed pestered by the 99-1 Gallagher longshot to his inside the entire backstretch. Looked like he was up on that one's heels a couple of times and meanwhile the rest of the field pulled clear of the back markers leaving him with too much to do once he had a clear run.

CSC · #7 08-26-2008, 07:13 AM

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Did you watch the race? He literally had nowhere to go for most of the race and the jock didn't even try on him.

I did see the race, we will have to disagree. I don't think it was a valid excuse. The horse clearly wasn't the horse we have seen in his previous races, Gomez is one of the best riders in traffic and if he thought he had some horse I believe he would have gotten some run somewhere.

Indian Charlie · #8 08-26-2008, 01:22 PM

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I did see the race, we will have to disagree. I don't think it was a valid excuse. The horse clearly wasn't the horse we have seen in his previous races, Gomez is one of the best riders in traffic and if he thought he had some horse I believe he would have gotten some run somewhere.

I suppose you could just go by what Gomez said after the race.

Danzig · #9 08-25-2008, 08:20 PM

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Originally Posted by CSC

I completely disagree, if being behind horses is a bad trip. Then we would have bad trips galore in every race.

Okay if its true he grabbed a quarter that might have affected his performance abit.

However, I think any time a horse trained by a trainer like Bob Baffert is laid up for 9 months and reappears on poly instead of Saratoga where he ran the lights out last year, there should be a sniff of skeptism in the air.

or maybe he wanted to give him a run over the fake stuff to see where he stood come the bc?

Indian Charlie · #10 08-25-2008, 12:33 AM

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Originally Posted by cowgirlintexas

Just watched the replay of the 8th with Midnight Lute..What the heck happend with this horse? He just kinda ran around the track..Never showed anything..Heard Baffert talk about him Friday on ATR and was saying how great of a horse he was,etc. etc..The best he's trained...Sure did'nt look like much today

Really bad trip, and I think Gomez just protected him when he realized the futility of his position.

Too bad too, I thought for a horse that never broke out of a gallop, he ran pretty big.