Re: frosted or fraudsted? (513 Views)
Posted by:
mjellish (IP Logged)
Date: August 29, 2015 10:01PM
3rd fraction was a quick one, but not enough that it should have fried AP IMO. I could see it cooking Frosted because that one ran a bit contrary to his style - was closer to the lead and did the dirty work on AP. But to me, AP was still empty for the drive for whatever reason. Think if he was ready for a top effort he would have had enough left. It wasn't that fast, they didn't come at him in waves, and you can't make excuses for him just because he had one colt next to him early. I say he bounced, and you can chalk it up to coming off a big effort off a layoff with two cross country ships on short rest or whatever. They aren't machines and are entitled to bounce. They're actually supposed to.
Makes the BC Classic more interesting IMO. Now we'll see if Baffert can bring him back around for one last top effort. His sheet will look pretty good by then off of this if he goes, which is good if you like him. Your odds will be better, and more people will spread in the horizontals which helps ALOT if you are still willing to forgive this one and single him.