Re: Questions about Figures (437 Views)
Posted by:
jimbo66 (IP Logged)
Date: April 25, 2005 03:22PM
Jerry,
Not to change the general subject of this thread, but what do you think of High Limit now? (without giving away too much of what will be in your seminar).
Before the BlueGrass, I read him as a horse who was very likely to move forward in that race and as such, a likely winner. I came away from the race very disappointed in his performance visually. Now, I see the figure and he "paired up". He has now twice paired up his 2 year old top and I guess could be sitting on a big one, based on pattern.
I for one, don't see it. I can't see an improved race in the Derby, with a bigger field, and a potentially worse trip. Frankel is adding blinkers now? He hasn't moved the horse up from his 2 year old top and if you assume that a normal horse improves from 2 to 3, Frankel has actually caused the horse to regress since he took over the training. I know he went from A. Dutrow to Frankel, so he went from one move up to another, but still, no move forward is concerning to me.
Also, the fact that no horse that has come out of the LA Derby to run well cannot be a positive sign. Even if we give HL a pair up, you still have Vicarage running lousy, Kansas City Boy running lousy and Sort It Out running mediocre (don't know what you will give him for yesterday)