Lava Man

[2Hot4TV]

Originally Posted by FlaFemFatale

Get glasses. The man quotes 45 something for the quarter. Now I know he made a mistake (or at least i think so) but most quarters are run in the 20's.

Oracle is right.He beat little in the Whittingham; and his trip out here to "real horsie country" didn't change my mind.

By the way, I may be dense, but what is "poly track"?

Got glasses,but at my AARP age I don't spend alot of time proof reading the text. You don't know it , but Oracle does, Lava Man is the money machine that the east coast stables don't want to meet on his home tracks.

[Gander]

Jockey Club was a funny race. FLower Alley got thumped and came back with a nice little race in the BC Classic, Bishop court Hill ran last and came back to be a grade 1 winner this year. Heck even the Sun King has run great twice since. So what the heck does it matter how Lava Man ran in the Jockey Club, a race where only 1 horse did any running? Grade 1 winner on dirt & turf, how many other horses can you say that about?

[Gander]

While I agree the field in yesterday's Manhattan towered over the race where Lava Man won, there were still 2 grade 1 winners in there that the Laza Man beat... Kings Drama and Sweet Return. Heck, Kings Drama won a big race here at Saratoga last summer so to most that would make him a super horse.

Originally Posted by Gander

While I agree the field in yesterday's Manhattan towered over the race where Lava Man won, there were still 2 grade 1 winners in there that the Laza Man beat... Kings Drama and Sweet Return. Heck, Kings Drama won a big race here at Saratoga last summer so to most that would make him a super horse.

Tim thats really a stretch. I agree, a grade one winner is always a grade one winner, But it would be like beating Funny Cide now and saying you beat a grade one winner. CURRENT form is really the only way to judge the type of competition that a horse beats. Sweet return, Tim, Please. The poor horse is just in awful shape and not even a shadow of his former self. Kings drama isn't exactly sharp as a knife either.
Lava man is a neat horse, a horse who runs on both surfaces and runs fast and displays great heart. But hes gotta win a race outside of Cali for me to even consider him in the upper echelon in either division.