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Originally Posted by wac
2) if a 2 yr old runs a low beyer in his/her 1st start are they basically a non factor moving forward? Reason i ask is there is a horse named Medal Count that ran yesterday at Kee in the stakes for 2 yr olds that was taken off T and i saw his 1st race thought it was pretty good but it came back only a 50 then yesterday he finishes 5th in a race that he basically ran around getting blocked and running up on horses most of the way then when it came time to go really wasnt anything there. so long/short should i forget about this horse or give him another chance? if so, how many more chances do these horses get?
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Dale Romans talked about Medal Count on ATR as part of a visit on Labor Day (or so) after the MDN win and thinks very highly of him. The Beyers on a number of Ellis Park 2yos came back on the low side this summer only to see them move up significantly in their next starts at CD in September. Medal Count got beat 2 lengths on the moved-to-poly Bourbon. He was a horse to track on Romans' opinion of him and these first 2 starts are OK enough to keep the faith.
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10-07-2013, 07:13 PM
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