11/25-26 (CD): Falls City H. (G2); Clark H. (G1)

[The Indomitable DrugS]

Originally Posted by Dahoss

Simple question, if he opens up 5 or 6 early, who do you think wins the race?

Redding Collery absolutely wins. There's not even a morsel of doubt in my mind.

Successful Dan is a very good horse - probably every bit as good as RC...he crossed the wire first in a Grade 1 today despite being rank and erratic - and throwing more body checks on other horses than the "crash line" of Mike Pauloso, Randy McKay, and Bobby Holik would throw in a typical shift for the New Jersey Devils back in the day when hockey was on national TV.

Originally Posted by Dahoss

I don't need to be Kreskin to figure out you liked Redding Colliery and instead of just accepting he's not that good, it's going to be excuse after excuse

What do you mean excuse after excuse? Look at his last five starts. His wins in the Hawthorne Gold Cup and Lone Star Park Handicap were sensational performances when he was up on screaming fast paces.

The defeat in the $1,000,000 race at Charles Town at 7/1 was a great performance. He broke from the 10-hole going a three-turn 9fs on a bullring and pressed a very strong pace and still ran extremely well.

The other two races - are his 2nd at Monmouth and 3rd today in the Clark. Both of them were similarly run races ... they featured painfully slow paces - and Redding Collery was rated off of the lead in both. RC had a very clean trip in the MTH drubbing .. today he didn't exactly have a clean trip.