Lava Man

[Rupert Pupkin]

Originally Posted by Gander

His race Sunday was brilliant. He dueled through very honest fractions and opened up on the field and had plenty left to hold off Good Reward.

Thats his 4th grade 1 win of the year. 6 in total, 2 on turf. Unbelievably consistent animal who still gets knocked on here for beating Perfect Drift, Magnum, Super Frolic, and a few others who I guess are a cut below horses like Flower Alley, who gets big time notoriety for beatng Bellamy Road off a huge layoff and the ridiculously overrated Roman Ruler.

So I guess he wont be validated until he wins outside of CA, meaning the BC Classic. Okay, so if Flower Alley wins the Woodward that wont count for anything because NY is his homestate and he only beat Sun King, who if you think is a world beater, well then I have a professional baseball team in Alaska waiting for you to buy.

I agree with you 100%. The field on Sunday may not have been great, but LM went head and head in pretty fast fractions and drew away and won by 4 lengths. It was an impressive performance. As I said in another thread, there is no way that Sun King could have gone head and head in :46 3/5 in a 1 1/4 mile race and beaten that field by 4 lengths.

Not only that, but LM has run a lot of great races. If this was the only good race that he ever ran then I could see why people would be skeptical. But this horse has done it time and time again. His win in the Hollywood Gold Cup last year was unbelievable. He won the race by 8 lengths over Borrego. He ran a 120 Beyer that day. I'm sure the sheet numbers confirm that it was an incredible performance.