Obviously the performance of the year by anybody in a route race so far - was Flat Out yesterday.
There's nothing in his form you can point to and say 'that might be why he improved so sharply' other than that it was his first try in a one-turn race beyond 6.5 furlongs...and he's really just been a horse who's wanted a one-turn mile and up all along ... but damn, does that feel like a stretch.
I'm sure the Sheets boards are alive with talk of how his gut-wrenching effort is going to cause him to bounce to the moon.
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