Re: Cerin says Brown picked the horse (550 Views)
Posted by:
fkach (IP Logged)
Date: August 19, 2007 08:16PM
This was really an amazing purchase and strategic move.
It wasn't too difficult to think Lava Man was vulnerable at 10F on Poly and it wasn't too difficult to think the rest of the older horses in CA weren't anything special, but picking this horse to be the one to send out there was not very easy despite his solid second to Brass Hat and a few good races on Poly.
Jerry and Parra deserve a huge congratulations on this one!
The final time was slow, but on that surface, I wouldn't be shocked if the horse ran a new top given the ground loss... I don't know how much a trainer can do in 2 days, but he certainly didn't screw things up. ;-)