Re: California Beyers (469 Views)
Date: March 05, 2005 09:12PM
miff,
I agree.
I am a long suffering RHT fan. I saw his debut and 2nd start and was instantly convinced he was "potential" star. It was always only "potential" though.
His career is better than it looks though.
How many horses just miss in the SA Derby in just their 3rd start and then run fairly well in the Preakness in their 4th?
The Belmont was a debacle, but that was 12 furlongs and he dueled a vastly superior horse in a hot pace. It was a horrendous trip.
He came back fine and then something obviously went wrong at MTH because he ran dreadfully. He couldn't be that bad. He went sour. So they stopped on him. That was a good move.
He never really had a chance to develop.
This year he was handled perfectly by Mandella. His first race was nothing special but he got the job done. That was obviously just a prep. The 2nd race was better (no matter how fast you believe it really was and I still don't know for sure).
I thought he was fairly likely to run better, but IMO he had a lot of ground to make up on St Liam. I could never take 7-2 on him there when I was giving 50% of the race to St Liam.
I've been saying the same things about this horse for the last 3-4 months. You can read lot of my back posts.