Re: Wicked Strong (782 Views)
Posted by:
Ollie (IP Logged)
Date: April 26, 2014 11:24PM
Jim, Thanks for relating your observations concerning seeing Wicked Strong yesterday. I think your observations, and assessment, are spot on.
I think the horse has been a work in progress his entire short, 6 race career. In every one of his races last year, I thought the horse ran greenly. In his Remsen race, between his drifting (reacting to the whip) and switching back to his wrong lead in the middle of the stretch, before the rider got the horse to correct it, I thought it cost the horse the race --- despite all the problems, the horse still made up several lengths in the final 3/8th of a mile, that was run in a pretty credible 35.36.
In his Wood, he still did a bit of drifting during the early portion of the stretch, and his subsequent head turn, was almost comical. Once straightened out, and changing to his proper lead, he draws off to win pretty impressively, and in a respectable time.
So, just how good is the horse, if he run a race without any of the "counter-active stuff" mentioned above? I don't know. I don't have the answer, but to me, it could be scary good.