Re: Justify workouts (1164 Views)
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ajkreider (IP Logged)
Date: May 27, 2018 09:11PM
My comment was in regard to the "if we live 100 years" bit.
The trend is not your friend here. Will see more and more of this, but it's not even that unique. Big Brown had exactly one race at two, on the grass, and then didn't run again until March. They were both 5 for 5 going into NY. He won more impressively to the eye and by TG. Was he better? I don't know, but that was a decade ago.
What were these horses destroyed by the Derby surface? Do you really believe that Smith saw Bravazo early enough to account for the wire and the pace? And if he were that concerned with saving energy, he would have shut his horse down, instead of having him gallop out with Tenfold until that one got pulled up.