You could be right, hard for me to say at the moment, around 2 turns Theregoesjojo may be naturally closer to the pace a point worth noting. The betting surprised me today, 15-1 ML to 9/2...

It didn't surprise me. The Gulfstream morning lines are terrible.

He got his first time lasix.
He carried 114 lbs.

This will be the last time for both.

Next race will be interesting.

I agree. He took a hell of a lot of money.

This Ones For Phil was in good shape - until he ran a 21.72 second quarter :mad:

I bet TOFP and Theregoesjojo to win. SamePage and Quality Road and maybe even Taqarub were supposed to duel on a 21.72 1st quarter with Prado carefully keeping TOFP out of the pace duel,
but the rest is history...

Quality Road ran back to his debut race. He's a nice horse, he's better than War Pass was at this time last year, and Quality Road can actually press as well as lead.

Lets be honest - this was a good field, but it's not really what its hyped up to be as "One of the Best Derby Preps in ages...". Most of these horses aren't classic distance horses. It was a nice field of sprinters and milers coming together with a lot of big figures.
Maybe if you get some of the sprinters out of the way it could help a horse like Quality Road even more in the Florida Derby he gets to relax up front.

They ran all ran pretty well to form - the race tactics and pace scenario just didn't materialize the way you would expect.

I didn't get that...I'm more interested in the Gotham than I was of this race.
Solid race from Quality Road though.

There was a time when I would have never believed that a son of Elusive Quality could win a major race at a classic distance. He already has sired a Kentucky Derby winner in Smarty Jones and last years Breeders Cup Classic winner Raven Pass.

I think he's without question the fastest horse Bill Mott ever trained. Back before they reconfigured Gulfstream - it was a very speed friendly track. Elusive Quality ran only two times there in his life - and posted Beyers of 122 and 123 in those two races. As fast as he was, he amazingly never won a stake race on dirt.





And from the fastest sprinter Mott ever trained .... to probably the worst horse Mott has trained in the last 20 years ... I give you Kobla ... the mother of Quality Road.



Pretty impressive two race career.

:eek: stark contrast there!

I only got one look at it, but didn't Theregoesjojo completely wipe out the #1 at the break? Not that I'm complaining because I actually had him.

Does anyone make anything of the fact that Quality Road isn't a Triple Crown nominee?

I mean it's only $600 to nominate. And now it will cost $6,000.

Odd.

Theregoesjojo carried 116 and Quality Road beat him by 4 1/4. The nearest highweight horse was 8 1/4 lengths behind QR. You can't honestly think this was a major factor.

And Lasix either helps a horse or it doesn't. It's not something that helps the first time, then stops having any effect.

That must have really dampened the connection's enthusiasm.

I'm more interested in what they think about their horse's chances to go long.

It is clearly something that can help improve a performance 1st time
after it is used.

And if you are implying lasix will keep helping improve
a horse past the 1st or 2nd that is not true. The real question is does the
horse move forward physically (not medically because the horse will stay on lasix)
off a very good performance in which the horse had some advantages.
Both horses had some weight advantages.

No.
I dont. not major.
But it did not hurt.

I was surprised initially...I assume they won't worry about the 6K to nominate now....and on a side note, I was dissapointed that he wasn't even eligible in the Road to the Roses game. I wanted him in my stable.

I guess you will be able to pick him up later.
Along with everyone else.

Totally agree. But Quality Road was freakish here. Staying that close to such a suicidal pace and then closing with a 23 (I think). Very eye openning. Now onto the excitement of the Gotham!

I'm impressed with Quality Road. Theregoesjojo had the race set up for him though, so it wasn't as impressive.

Strawberry Road stood for only 10k?

That has to be the biggest stallion bargain in my lifetime. Well, besides IC starting out at 10k, but SR was already a well established stallion.

How about Candy Stripes at $6,000?

I think Strawberry Road was probably more deserving of a higher stud fee, but yeah, 6k seems kinda low. At what point in his career was that? Early on or when he died?