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Originally Posted by the_fat_man
'Ellis wasn't surprised.
"Shocked would be a better word," he said. '
I know how that feels, Ron. 
Like when you kept riding Valdivia last year and he kept blowing races on this horse.
You and the owners might've been clueless to this but justice is served, IMO.
Of course, Ron is 'astute' enough to note the bad ride last out on RT by Bejarano. Can't get any sharper than that.
And away we go................. |
Tell me what Valdivia should have done differently in those two races (The Mervyn LeRoy and the Californian). In the first race he got beat, they were trying to teach the horse to rate. They laid 2nd behind Ball Four and they never caught him. In the next race, they obviously couldn't give Ball four too easy of a lead because they were afraid he would go wire-to-wire again. So they laid about a length off him on a moderate pace. They beat him that time but they didn't beat Informed.
07-16-2010, 04:07 PM
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