I think the race is a toss for Pyro and any horse that was running on the stuff for the first time. I just do not understand why horses that have soley ran on dirt would enter a prep on poly (unless it was a last chance to get earnings). Do the trainers look at it as some kind of stamina turf to dirt play? Last year I thought that Street Sense used the Bluegrass as sort of a qusi workout. I do not think he was all out to win that race last year (obviously he ran much better than Pyro did.)
One other toss point/question. Take a horse like Big Truck before yesterday. Do you toss out the race he ran in the Hutch because it was on the slop? If you do, why wouldn't you toss a race over a synthetic surface?
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Felix Unger talking to Oscar Madison: "Your horse could finish third by 20 lengths and they still pay you? And you have been losing money for all these years?!"
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04-13-2008, 10:41 AM
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