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09-20-2006, 02:55 PM
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09-20-2006, 03:01 PM
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09-20-2006, 03:05 PM
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From Racing post.....
Dylan entered for prestigious US Grade 1 by Tony O'Hehir DYLAN THOMAS could run in the US as early as next weekend in advance of a Breeders' Cup Classic bid at Churchill Downs in November. The son of Danehill, winner of the Irish Derby and the Irish Champion Stakes this season and as short as 10-1 for the Classic, also has the option of the prestigious Jockey Club Gold Cup at Belmont Park the following weekend although the earlier race has the advantage of being run on Polytrack rather than dirt. Should the Ballydoyle-Coolmore team opt to run Dylan Thomas in the Belmont Park event it could result in the dual Group 1 winner going head to head with top US dirt performers Bernardini and Invasor, who head the betting for the Classic. The colt's trainer Aidan O'Brien said on Wednesday: "We have entered Dylan Thomas for the Grade 2 Kentucky Cup Classic over nine furlongs at Turfway Park a week on Saturday. "We haven't decided yet whether he will go for the race as there is also the Jockey Club Gold Cup at Belmont Park a week later to consider." O'Brien added: "We are looking at giving him a run before the Breeders' Cup Classic to see how he handles what will be a new surface for him. He's in good form and we'll decide on plans over the weekend.”
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09-20-2006, 03:12 PM
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09-21-2006, 03:40 AM
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Dylan has been entered for the Kentucky Cup Classic at Turfway next weekend as well as the JCGC. Obviously the 9f there would be insufficient and the race would amount to little more than a public experiment (although that would be on polytrack, and my experience of that surface is that almost any horse acts on it). O'Brien was suggesting the BCC straight after the Irish Champion, so they must have some idea of his ability to handle the dirt...although one would imagine that the plan has also been devised so as to keep Hurricane Run and Dylan Thomas apart in the BCT.
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09-21-2006, 06:10 PM
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I don't understand the thinking here that running in Kentucky over Polytrack would give them any clue as to how he would handle real dirt?
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09-21-2006, 06:19 PM
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09-21-2006, 06:20 PM
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I guess they wanna keep them apart. Or they feel the transition from grass to poly to dirt is a better plan than just grass to dirt.
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09-21-2006, 06:32 PM
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There's hardly a real sample size. There's only one track that has had Polytrack for any period of time and not too many good horses have raced there ( in fact just about zero ). I'm sure there will be some that are fine on both. The point is if they want to see if Dylan Thomas can handle the dirt you would think they would try a true dirt surface.
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