Most difficult to find "Lucy" yesterday! Long winded miss had never been remotely competitive going a mile in seven previous starts. Mare excluded from the "Cup and was going to auction if she got in.

Happy for Steve n Eddie who have somehow kept this one sound especially considering that cross. Always seems a price, breaking her maiden for $30K at a $48 dollar mutual then returning in a 40K starter paying some $66, then beaten in a picture at some 40-1 in the Dmr Oaks!

As many, I much prefer turf as form is more consistent, this heat somewhat excluded, although first time Kent, on turf, always a positive.

Also, read the Beyer prattle on turf figs a few weeks back. He has never grasped that class and configuration trump figures more often than not.

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