Lava Man Is The NUTS

Here's the question I have ... and it's always the same one ... so by now you're all used to it ...

If it's so easy to win six straight graded stakes races in California ... how come no one else has done it?

[Thunder Gulch]

Everyone is overracting on both sides of this argument. To call Lava Man a cheap handicapper or consider him only able to contend in California is ridiculous. On the other hand, we aren't looking at Ghostzapper here. Today was impressive, not his best, but impressive. He dueled through honest fractions and did what he needed. His success later in the year may depend on how the races set up. If there isn't a real speed horse to hook him at Churchill, I'd take him over what I have seen so far.