AJ
I do not see any urgency in watching this particular race, or even looking at
the chart, because you and Shanno have done a good job of painting a picture of
this race. Or maybe two pictures.
In any case:
1) There are still eight days left in February
2 Haven\'t been following closely, but isn\'t the way it goes that Baffert ships
out Mastery or one of his other prospects for the Rebel. Then the Baffert Rebel
winner goes back west, and a different BBft prospect ships to OP for the Ark
Derby. Its fun because the Cal based horses will look slow on the TGs and as
James Caan\'s Sonny Corleone would say, Jimbo will take it \"very personally\".
Its interesting this year because the West Coast prospects have had to dance
around the raindrops, as did Affirmed in the winter of his Triple Crown season,
nearly 40 years ago.
Sire Redboard: have told many of the high esteem in which I have held Harlan\'s
Holiday; before his demise in 2013, he impressed me as a very versatile
(distance/surface) stallion. Today\'s Southwest winner is sired by the
Harlan\'s Holiday stallion Into Mischief, who stands at Spendthrift for 75K.
