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#1
10-25-2009, 01:05 AM
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How come to be "Lukas'd" doesn't mean to be like:
Tank's Prospect Winning Colors Tabasco Cat Thunder Gulch Timber Country Grindstone Editor's Note Charismatic Commendable Cat Thief Serena's Song Sharp Cat Lady's Secret Sacahuista I mean, he's had a little success with 3yos.
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#2
10-25-2009, 01:33 AM
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Tank's Prospect - won the preakness and DNF'd in the Belmont, never running again. Winning Colors - Never really the same after the Preakness. Stephens more to blame for that one I guess. Tabasco Cat - won the preakness and belmont, then closed out his career going 1 for 6. Thunder Gulch - Didn't make it to the BC of his 3yo year before being done. Timber Country - Retired after Preakness. Grindstone - I got a call a few minutes after the derby from a friend saying he was so messed up going into the derby, that immediately after the race the connections knew he was finished. Editor's Note - After his Super Derby win, ran 11 more times with one win, an alw race. That was his only ITM performance, and 7 of those 11 races were double digit losses. Charismatic - Broke down in the Belmont. Commendable - you gotta be kidding me. Cat Thief - Useful and did get the fluke BCC win. Worst crop in the last twenty years except for the Big Brown crop. Serena's Song - She stayed good for a long time. Tailed off a bit at the end. Sharp Cat - Got better with age. Lady's Secret - Tailed off pretty bad at the end there. Sacahuista - Nice filly Most of those you list tailed off real bad, burned out or got hurt. I also did mention he was more notorious with his 2yos in the 80s.
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#3
10-25-2009, 01:49 AM
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For a recent horse ... I would have liked to have seen Zaftig run on dirt again after her Acorn win last year.
In just her 5th lifetime start, Zaftig won the Acorn with a 113 Beyer. Since they've been published in the DRF in 1990, here are the top 3 all-time fastest winning Beyers in the Acorn. * 2008: Zaftig (113) * 1993: Sky Beauty (107) * 1997: Sharp Cat (103) At one point - Sky Beauty was 12-for-12 with 7 Grade 1 wins at Belmont Park. She was the queen of Belmont. Sharp Cat won back-to-back Grade 1's by daylight with Beyers of 112 and 119 at Belmont in her final two starts there. Zaftig ran exactly 8.5 lengths faster than the average winning Acorn figure... and the Acorn is a very serious race. Winners over that span include Meadow Star, Prospectors Delite, Sky Beauty, Inside Information, Sharp Cat, Jersey Girl, Three Ring, Bird Town, and Round Pond. Zaftig came back injured .. and made just one more start in her career. She finished 3rd off the layoff in last years synthetic BC Filly and Mare Sprint and got hurt again. It sounded a lot like her decision to run in the BC last year was an owners decision...and she was rushed to it.
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#4
10-25-2009, 02:04 AM
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Yeah, no doubt she was the best 3yo filly based in this country last year.
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