By the way ... I thought Amen Hallujah would win the Alcibiates because she had good figures at Arlington in a MCL race and opt Claimer when Asmussen trained her ... and she was going 1st time Dutrow.
Amen Hall ran 3rd at 10/1 odds despite being extremely wide on both turns. She was also a Montbrook out of Concorde's Tune stretching way out in distance and trying a route for the 1st time.
Still... it was very puzzling to me how a horse can go from all Asmussen synthetic races ... to 1st time Dutrow and not run off the screen.
But looking at Dutrow Jr.'s syn stats ... it's too early to tell, but he doesn't exactly seem to have the surface figured out himself.
Rick Dutrow Jr. in all synthetic track races:
2009 - 6-0-1-2 ($0.00)
2008 - 6-0-1-0 ($0.00)
2007 - 22-1-2-7 ($0.24)
2006 - 5-1-0-1 ($0.76)
2005 - 0-0-0-0 (-----)
Lifetime: 2-for-39 ($0.23 ROI)
In stakes races: 10-0-0-2
His two 3rds coming with Amen Hall and Stardom Bound at Keeneland. Kip Deville only managed an 8th place finish in his one synthetic try in a race won by the immortal Buzzard's Bay.
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