Early Weekend Beyers

[blackthroatedwind]

Originally Posted by Travis Stone

The only assumption is that those horses went synth-to-dirt. The problem is Indian Blessing, Cocoa Beach, Midnight Lute, Black Seventeen and Tiago all started their careers on dirt.

All of those horses, save Cocoa Beach, are good dirt horses that were ( are ) hampered by running on synthetic surfaces. Cocoa Beach was singularly unimpressive in winning the Beldame, and flourished on synthetics and turf in California, and don't even get me started on how crazy it is that Tiago continues to race out there. He won the Santa Anita Derby and Oaklawn Handicaps on dirt....yet flounders race after race on synthetics...and they keep running him out there. Mind boggling.

[Danzig]

Originally Posted by blackthroatedwind

All of those horses, save Cocoa Beach, are good dirt horses that were ( are ) hampered by running on synthetic surfaces. Cocoa Beach was singularly unimpressive in winning the Beldame, and flourished on synthetics and turf in California, and don't even get me started on how crazy it is that Tiago continues to race out there. He won the Santa Anita Derby and Oaklawn Handicaps on dirt....yet flounders race after race on synthetics...and they keep running him out there. Mind boggling.

makes you wonder how much more often tiago could/would win if he wasn't hampered by being owned by californians..

[Travis Stone]

Originally Posted by blackthroatedwind

...and don't even get me started on how crazy it is that Tiago continues to race out there. He won the Santa Anita Derby and Oaklawn Handicaps on dirt....yet flounders race after race on synthetics...and they keep running him out there. Mind boggling.

ntamm1215 and I have been saying this for a while. Who would he have to beat to win the Stephen Foster, Suburban, Whitney etc? It's not a big list. This is the year to bring him East!