Re: California Beyers (466 Views)
Date: March 06, 2005 01:31PM
TGJB,
>CH-- This race will probably come up about neg 2 or 3, which actually would be around Beyer 109.<
I believe a negative 2 or 3 would be a little higher for Andy, but I have no idea what he will assign it.
> But you do agree this was a better effort than the Strub-- I assume.<
Absolutely.
It has always been my contention that he was much more likely to improve than people were giving him credit for - not that he was much better than people thought so far. IMO, his only poor efforts were excusable and he didn't really get a chance to demonstrate what he could do at 3.
>RHT ran well, but let's be realistic, guys. Figures aside, as I pointed out before the race, all the horses in the race save one had proven to be far short of top quality when racing against the East Coast horses, and the one good one did not fire.<
I agree that the CA group is a bad batch.
I agree that St. Liam did not run anywhere near his best, but I'm not sure that 10F and the outside post didn't also contribute to how badly he was beaten. We probably disagree a little on this, but IMO it is often stressful on a frontrunner to be used from the outside to get position when they are also suspect at a distance. They often get beaten a lot worse than you would think between the conbination of the 2.