not 1 dirt horse

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Originally Posted by parsixfarms

Most of these are not NY-based horses. The long list of short-priced NY-based horses that spun their wheels in California Cups include Slew O' Gold, Groovy (x2), Dehere, Sky Beauty, Heavenly Prize, Behrens, Grand Slam, Sightseek, and Aldebaran. No NY-based horse won a Breeders Cup dirt race in either 2003 or 1993, the last two times the Cup was held at Santa Anita.

Slew O Gold lost by a 1/2 length with severe traffic trouble. It wasn't the surface.

Groovy was 2nd and 4th IIRC, he basically just got outsprinted in a full field the way Zensational did yesterday.

Sky Beauty never did anything outside of NY.

Heavenly Prize was making just her 3rd start and ran a sharp 3rd in a strong field.

Grand Slam suffered severe lacerations in a hind leg on the first turn of the '97 Juvenile.

Sightseek never performed well in CA, granted.

Aldeberan never won a race at 6f. He would have won if it was 7f, in fact he was a Grade 1 winner in CA in the San Carlos.