Re: Meadowlake (622 Views)
Posted by:
4singles2all (IP Logged)
Date: August 14, 2004 03:32PM
When the meet shifted to HAW after the fire, they had no time to properly prepare the track and just layed down an additional cushion to accomadate the racing. Older, seasoned stakes horses were having a hard time seeing anything this side of 1:12 and Meadowlake broke his maiden in 1:09 and change.
He then ran in Arlington-Washington Futurity which was GR1 back then. One of the trainers who shipped in walked the track and said of Meadowlake's maiden score ..."if he ran that fast on this, he will win by the length of the stretch". He broke bad and drew off to win by 10 in a gallop.
I waited the whole winter for the Ogygian/Meadowlake match-up, but it never materialized. Two year olds always seem to pay a big price for fast races.