Lava Man - Prep at Keeneland

The Bid · #1 10-10-2006, 04:16 PM

I dont think training over Keeneland will help him one bit at CHD. Its nice to ship in early, I agree with that 100%. Shipping in a week early, something like that and just galloping/jogging over the surface after a final work is a good idea. Shipping into Keeneland to prep a horse to run at CHD, makes no sense

The Bid · #2 10-10-2006, 04:17 PM

Big difference flying over to Japan off a huge race to run in another huge race. That was just a dumb spot for Lava Man. No horse would take that ship well

Gander · #3 10-10-2006, 04:19 PM

I agree, he should have never run in Japan. None of our horses ever seem to do well there. I hope the connections of Kennle Up pass up the temptation of sending him over this year to run in teh Japan Cup. Too many horses.

Pointg5 · #4 10-10-2006, 04:22 PM

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Originally Posted by The Bid

Big difference flying over to Japan off a huge race to run in another huge race. That was just a dumb spot for Lava Man. No horse would take that ship well

Also, he didn't run well in his last race in Cali before shipping, this is the first time he's been running well before he's shipped...

2MinsToPost · #5 10-10-2006, 05:00 PM

Yeah he mentioned this during the telecast, he was wanting to give Lava 3 weeks in Kentucky.

I am very excited about this. I like this horse a lot. I like Dini as well, but the gambler in me is going with Lava for 2 reasons.

1 - I love the underdogs
2 - I love the odds Lava will get compared to Dini

Pointg5 · #6 10-10-2006, 04:17 PM

Also, I saw a comment where O'Neil said that LM had bad feet and they wanted to train on the Poly because of it...