In general, it's not that surprising that they come back to isolated tops at some point if they are given time off, and if they don't do it first or second off a layoff it's a bad sign. If they do it off a layoff or a non-effort it is tough to know what it means until you see a race and sometimes two following it-- as a rule of thumb, healthy early season 3yos should be running to at least previous tops no worse than every other race.



TGJB