Shamdinan back to O'neill

[hockey2315]

Don't have his PPs close by but I think Shamdinan is a soft turf specialist (BC and Secretariat were both on softer ground). . .

[brianwspencer]

Originally Posted by hockey2315

Don't have his PPs close by but I think Shamdinan is a soft turf specialist (BC and Secretariat were both on softer ground). . .

Didn't he bomb on his last over soft going before coming to the States?

Maybe I'm thinking of another horse, but I thought it was him, and I remember being confused before the BC about whether he liked it or not after winning the Secretariat.

[jwkniska]

Originally Posted by brianwspencer

Didn't he bomb on his last over soft going before coming to the States?

Maybe I'm thinking of another horse, but I thought it was him, and I remember being confused before the BC about whether he liked it or not after winning the Secretariat.

He did bomb the race before the Secretariat (just pulled out my program from last year to check)... it was on soft ground in the Irish Derby against much better competition too. Any G1 in Europe, especially a race of that magnitude, isn't even remotely equal to a G1 in a short field in the US.