Re: Materiality (734 Views)
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covelj70 (IP Logged)
Date: April 14, 2015 03:36PM
Gerald, that's an awesome point
So many times the horses coming off big new tops (as was suggested both Mat and AP are) break slowly and that's where MJ's point about the post draw comes into play even more
easier to recover from an outside draw than an inside one
Most of the time (definitely not all but most) of the time horses break poorly is because they are sore behind. Not unusual that big efforts create sore back ends in horses
AP back end wasn't looking so robust when he got off the plane yesterday but he lost a lot of weight after his last race as well and then he put most of it back on before the Ark Derby. Will be interesting to see how his weight 2 weeks from now compares to today. I would expect him to look significantly different/better in a few weeks than he did getting off the plane yesterday coming right off a big effort race