It was a good horse on a fair track (788 Views)
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T Severini (IP Logged)
Date: August 30, 2015 12:27PM
Two races in Three weeks?
Are you talking the Triple Crown wore him down?
This was AP's first race in a month after a pretty easy effort at Monmouth. Unfortunately, I got hung up in a Fantasy Football draft and missed the chance to ring the bell.
Keen Ice was coming on. That Haskell was no mirage where Ice closed into a track on a day that was difficult. Still AP hung on and ran for second and my hope when the time came was to count him out. For those with the conviction Saratoga was the right place and time to ring up that winning ticket though.
Noted the come home fraction was over 26.5 seconds. Frosted did the deed on a track that to my eye, (charts), went slow, fast, slow.......real hard to be certain with all the turf racing and the lack of dirt heats late.
When we projected AP's defeat this track was one you had to factor. If AP's owners get cold feet now, who can blame them. But their horse should relish Keeneland and if they pass they go out losing to Keen Ice a horse many said wasn't even in the picture. AP's connections need to prove it wasn't a fluke!
Dana666 Wrote:
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> Can't help but think two races in three weeks,
> shipping across the county and back again, was
> just insane. Do they even know their horse? It was
> very unfair in my opinion, asking him to do too
> much. Don't get me wrong, I really liked Keen Ice
> today, but this horse is way bigger than just
> cashing or not cashing a small bet in one race.
> The purse of 1.25 million is also paltry compared
> to whatever they'll get for syndication. So why
> not pick one, Haskell or Travers??? That kind of
> experience can ruin a horse mentally. I'd be very
> leery of his next couple races, if he even races
> again. You want him in the Breeder's Cup? You can
> have him. I mean, he looked like a completely
> different horse in the flesh today compared with
> the Haskell. And on NBC they said he gained
> weight??? I doubt that. I told Victor Espinoza on
> Social media Monday I thought this race might get
> him, and, strangely, he was wasn't angry with me
> (later I thought I shouldn't have said that to
> him). He agreed this would be his toughest race.
> Am I over analyzing here? Maybe so, but since I
> began following English racing and I realize how
> bad Lasix really is for horses, I'm more aware of
> these things. That Haskell though it looked easy
> was a tremendous performance, and in the heat
> especially a horses's energy is drained by the
> effects of Lasix. You don't give that kind of
> performance and come back three weeks later and
> repeat it. Just makes me wonder what the hell they
> were thinking?