Travers Buzz: Quality Road a yes..

[NTamm1215]

Originally Posted by Antitrust32

You are giving Summer Bird WAY too many excuses in the Haskell. She trounced him very fairly.. and she was just 2 ticks off the track record in SLOP. Summer Bird ran a winning race in the Haskell.. he ran as good in that race as he has in others. Rachel is just better.

I find it funny that anyone would say the Haskell was made for RA.

The excuse about Summer Bird not racing where he likes to be is basically moot now that he used almost the EXACT same tactics in the Travers. They've obviously trained him to have more speed and it's been on display in each of his last two starts. Did he race on the worst part of the track? Potentially, but that's not enough to make up the chasm that existed between he and Rachel at the finish.

NT