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Originally Posted by The Indomitable DrugS
He's not all that much a route horse when he's forced to rally wide - into the teeth of slow paces - and notoriously inside-speed friendly FG.
Machen's debut sprinting was very fast - every figure maker other than Beyer has that race brutally fast - and 94 isn't exactly slow.
He's going to be a 'wildcard' routing until he's allowed to use his natural speed. I've dropped him from the list of %'s because he's a wildcard with minimal Graded Earnings now. We all know Howard is a very low ROI trainer who doesn't produce much despite getting a ton of choicy and expensive stock. I'd love to see someone with some common sense like a Baffert take over the trainer of that horse.
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So one race makes a horse very fast? I'm not trying to give you a hard time, but I just don't think you can make statements like that about horses in this crop, especially after the way we have seen some of these "very fast" horses run after their debuts.
03-27-2011, 09:21 PM
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