Nicanor entered at Delaware

miraja2 · #1 05-13-2009, 04:11 PM

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Originally Posted by The Indomitable DrugS

He was a little too agressive with the blinkers first time but should learn to relax better.

True, but overall the blinkers seemed to help him quite a bit. Lezcano said he was extremely distracted in the gate and at the start of the race last time, and he certainly appeared focused today.
I thought it was a good performance. The speed of the race will obviously be easier to determine after the 8f turf race later on the card, but I doubt his race comes back a whole lot slower than that one. There is no reason to think he couldn't be a decent stakes horse on the lawn, and actually the addition of blinkers could make him a stakes horse on the dirt as well.
All things considered, it looks like he's fairly good.

Bobby Fischer · #2 05-13-2009, 04:34 PM

with the way hes bred to love the distance, I am surprised nobody has said the "B" word...
Hey - last year it was won wire-to-wire.

Seriously he is bred to get a mile and a half, and if they keep stretching him out, it would be cool to see him run with the "real" turf horses. You don't see much quality speed in the 11 and 12 furlong classic turf races. He could dictate tactics in some of those races if he keeps improving.
Who knows... he's still probably going to be a very tempting to bet-against in his allowance or stakes debut.

cowgirlintexas · #3 05-13-2009, 04:43 PM

Finally

Now we shall see what happens from here, what he's really made of.

Seattleallstar · #4 05-13-2009, 04:45 PM

against that group of horses he was supposed to win by 15, id like to see what the horse who beat him last time out at Gulstream does in its next start

Linny · #5 05-13-2009, 09:38 PM

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Originally Posted by Seattleallstar

against that group of horses he was supposed to win by 15, id like to see what the horse who beat him last time out at Gulstream does in its next start

Glitterman's Cartel was off the board at CD about 10 minutes after Nicanor's win.