The Wood

3kings · #1 04-09-2011, 06:38 PM

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Originally Posted by Indian Charlie

I answered this in the Wood thread, but to summarize my already short post there, I thought he didn't get over the track well at all. Either due to dislike of the track, or soreness.

Both are ceartainly possible........I'm still not sold he can get 10 panels. Chances are we may not get a chance to find out

Indian Charlie · #2 04-09-2011, 06:45 PM

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Originally Posted by 3kings

Both are ceartainly possible........I'm still not sold he can get 10 panels. Chances are we may not get a chance to find out

If he's sound, healthy, etc and in the gate for the Derby, he should still win, now just at a bigger price.

That is a big freaking IF though.

Princess Doreen · #3 04-09-2011, 06:59 PM

http://sports.espn.go.com/sports/hor...aul&id=6317906

Trainer Todd Pletcher said afterwards that Uncle Mo grabbed his left-front quarter, shearing off a piece of the hoof wall the size of a quarter while leaving the gate sharply in what appeared to be a clean break, but would not use the mishap as an excuse. Uncle Mo's immediate future, however, is uncertain.

"He grabbed a quarter leaving the gate," Pletcher said. "It didn't help but I'm not using that as an excuse. After that, he was kind of hounded early on. The fractions were reasonable. It was his first time going a mile and an eighth, first time over the Aqueduct surface. I was a little concerned turning for home at the three-sixteenths pole when he didn't really kick clear. I thought then that we were going to be in for a fight. You could see the last fifty to sixty yards he was tired.