A Little Warm Returns... Tuesday, Delaware Park

[The Indomitable DrugS]

Originally Posted by NTamm1215

You think Tahitian Warrior was ready to go off the layoff? Considering Godolphin's numbers, specifically at Belmont over the last two years, I doubt it. As far as the rest of the field, the Levine horse who got left, Ricoriatoa, and Monte Carlo are hardly good.

Was he ready to go in his debut race off of nothing but workouts?

He ran back to his huge debut race in sound defeat. Yet you still doubt he was ready to go?

What's wrong with Godolphin's numbers at Belmont? They look like this

2009: 5-for-24 (21%)
2008: 13-for-38 (34%)
2007: 8-for-32 (25%)
2006: 7-for-16 (44%)
2005: 5-for-17 (29%)

Are those supposed to be bad numbers suggesting they can't have a horse ready? When you consider how extremely cautious they are - they aren't exactly who you think of when it comes to starting short horses - or horses who need races.

Ricoriatoa was beaten just a neck in a fast N1X alw race in his prior start ... he was 4th by 11+ lengths against this so called "questionable group" of entry level allowance horses?

If this was a questionable entry level allowance group ... I'm absolutely dying to see what a solid entry level allowance group looks like.

Sorry you can't accept a simple little correction.

I remember talking to the owner of PeteCarol - a layoff horse he claimed for 80K two starts back - and he was all excited about betting him because he was outworking a good alw sprinter he also owns who runs high 80's .. when I looked at the field it was pretty obvious his horse was going to get smoked bad at a huge price. I guess I could have told him ... Wow, you got extremely lucky!! You landed in a questional field!!

The big question with most entry level alw races is 'why aren't about half the horses in this field entered in a 25K N2L claiming race instead?' With this allowance race .. the question was more like 'will this race produce a graded stakes winner or two?'