Super Ninety Nine...

[pweizer]

100 Beyer.

Paul

[ateamstupid]

I think he makes a lot more sense as a Derby prospect than Secret Circle did.

[outofthebox]

impressed again by Super99. Not sure how much the track hurt some of the other runners, but didn't faze 99 at all. Hopefully he will make it back for the Ark Derby. I'm sure it will be a much tougher field...

[Merlinsky]

Was he the one that Baffert called a miler? His female family relations include Exogenous, Curlin, and Countess Diana. Also Win Variation, a GSW in Japan who finished 2nd to Orfevre in the Japanese TC races. If SNN is out of an Unbridled's Song mare, is by Pulpit, and has extended family that can handle routes, I assume he must've given some indication that he got some serious genes from the Phone Trick branch of the family tree. Is he built like a sprinter or something? Perhaps a Midnight Lute-esque breathing issue that limits his distance capabilities?

Incidentally, I figure Midnight Lute's gonna get some distance horses. It's a shame his problem couldn't be worked out. Fortunately he had enough talent/speed to handle sprinting or he wouldn't have gotten the chance he's getting at stud. He's Real Quiet's big hope to continue that line and now Quiet American's pensioned.

[letswastemoney]

This is one of the cases where all you had to do was pick the highest speed figure. I don't see why he can't do the same on a fast track though. He already won a dirt route at Santa Anita on a dry, fast dirt surface.

[Dahoss]

It was an impressive performance no doubt. I will mention his only real competition (Always in a Tiz) got a ridiculous ride and the horse that ran second got beat approximately the same amount of lengths by Oxbow in the Lecomte.

But he seems to be getting better which is what you are looking for in a 3 year old right now.

[Calzone Lord]

I help CJ and do figures for both Santa Anita and Oaklawn.

I actually had Super Ninety Nine's Southwest figure regressing 9 points to just an 80 despite winning the Southwest by double digit lengths. These figures are on a scale where Ghostzapper tops out at 100.

Here were the last-out figures going into the Southwest:




Either Super Ninety Nine won the Southwest big without even showing up, or maybe I might have that allowance race a little fast...although the big alw number for Super 99 looked like a day that was fairly cut and dry from a figure making standpoint.

Code West, who was 2nd in that alw race, is running in the Risen Star this week, and he's fastest of anyone last out in that tough field.



It's a little disconcerting that Super 99 didn't come close to getting back to the number even though he won off...but I'm still leaning to the belief that the alw race was very fast and you have to give Code West a look in the Risen Star.