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Originally Posted by NTamm1215
Is that what you said though? You said that he wasn't even closing. He was closing. This wasn't a suck-up second for a horse with a perfect trip who never had a straw in his path. I won't argue that the race didn't set up for him because it certainly did. I also won't make Ice Box out to be something more than he is, which is a pace dependent, one run closer who is going to be a factor when the race flow is in his favor. However, I don't think you can refute the notion that given what he encountered, on this particular day, he was best.
Might that be the case going forward? Not necessarily, because we really were left with more questions than answers. Lookin at Lucky collected more excuses, Sidney's Candy stopped like he got shot, Devil May Care had a perfect trip according to her jockey and came up empty and all of this was done on a very sloppy track that had begun to dry.
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It's a matter of interpretation, a horse that is seemingly closing into a final 26.80 sec final 1/4 mile in a race that was collasping is more likely to be downgraded the way I see it, obcourse if he had a clear trip he probably gets up to beat SS; however It would be hard pressed to find any performance that I would say was Summer Bird like as last year. I'll have to take another look but nothing stood out to me this year except for Conveyance who will be a good horse in the future given that they can find the right races for him.