Assmussen's (Steve) trainee "Spoiler" just won the 1st race @ Kee and paid 23.96 for $2 to win. An easy horse to overlook slowish relative to the comoetition, second off a lengthy layoff, and switching from two turf efforts back to dirt where he started his career very slowly. He surprised many I think going gate to wire for the first time.

Oh he worked :48.2 last week. PP's list him as a 18% winning trainer 2023.

As far as the B.C. goes I think he was the trainer who said two year olds shipping west for the B.C. have poor 3 y/o campaigns so he left Pletcher and Baffert to fight out the 2 y/o races. add a euro and a Samarai for spice.