Re: Travers - Postscript (651 Views)
Date: August 29, 2004 02:20PM
>What I said after the race is that there is no reason to say FROM THIS RACE that LH can't get the distance, not just because of the above, but because he stopped before he went a mile. THERE IS NO REASON TO THINK HE WOULD NOT ALSO HAVE DONE SO IF THE RACE WAS 1 1/8th.<
I agree. There is no reason to conclude he can't get 10F off this race.
There was every reason to conclude he couldn't get 10F off everything else in his record to date and this performance did nothing to change that.
There was also every reason to conclude he wasn't runing as well as many people thought coming into this race - including his last start against a relative non-entity where he was loose on the lead and failed to draw off.
This was the worst 5-2 shot in a major stake this year.
Post Edited (08-29-04 17:43)