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Old 04-12-2011, 12:23 AM
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Originally Posted by The Indomitable DrugS View Post
I agree with you on that ...

However, in hindsight, these 9f dirt routes at AQU have all been run like battle of attrition/survival of the fittest type races - and speed has really had no success relative to expectations for a dirt surface.

Velazquez was riding him like he was on a loaded keg of dynamite - and when he finally asked - he really looked like a very tired horse who was trying to give his best to no avail.
Uncle Mo's Wood effort basically confirmed he's somewhere between Favorite Trick and Fly So Free in terms of Derby potential. I wonder how he would have fared in the Florida Derby. If he was truly a short horse, I suppose he would have got buried even worse than in NY, but conversely, maybe as you say he was simply a sitting duck on the lead at Aqueduct, and theoretically could have established a stalking position at GP.

Maybe it was going to happen even if Uncle Mo had won the Wood Memorial as planned, but it's interesting that Pletcher is throwing everything he's got in his barn at the Blue Grass and Arkansas Derby. I wonder if he'll scrape up anything left for the Lexington.
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