Re: Your Short list (1341 Views)
Posted by:
Treadhead (IP Logged)
Date: April 10, 2002 09:37AM
One point about Came Home, he will be going into the derby off 2 backward moves. In the cases of all the other exception horses that bounced at 3 but still ran well (Monarchos, TGulch, IInk) there was a single bounce followed by a return to forward movement (Charasmatic may be an exception to this, I can't remember his sheet).
I agree he is a great horse and tries hard, but I think that 0 he ran in Feb hurt and he will come up short. If the derby isn't too stressful for him, I might consider him for the Preakness.
My other point is about the data for horses coming in to the derby off 6 weeks rest. What good is that data, how may of those horses were actually contenders? Since good horses are usually running in the April preps, I have a feeling that this data is skewed. I commend Murray for trying this route with Perfect Drift, this is the first time I can remember in the last 6-7 years that a real contender is coming into the race off a 6-week layoff. We shall see what happens.