Re: ROTW and One v. Two Turns (450 Views)
Posted by:
SoCalMan2 (IP Logged)
Date: February 21, 2005 01:41PM
Dear BitPlayer
Thank you for the compliment.
In response to your comment, I definitely look at the difference between two turn and one turn races. However, I think UM can handle one turn pretty well (as well as handle the turn back if it were one).
He ran a '2.5' as a two year old in a sprint. That is pretty good one turn capability (on a par to his later two turn -1.5 top when you factor in age and experience). He has had three major jump up tops in his career, and two of the three were in one turn sprints.
As to turn backs from two turns to one, he is not really turning back today as his last race was one turn. However, he turned back very nicely from the Queens County into the 2004 Gen George (1.5 point new top and first negative #).
Having said all that, I, of course, would have liked it better if he had ran better in his last three one turn races, but he did either have excuses or was vulnerable to a bounce in those three instances so it is difficult to draw too much in either direction from those.