First, it\'s just pure folly throwing any European horse out of the mix. As the EP Taylor demonstrated once again this weekend, there really isn\'t any good way to gauge how much the Euros jump up first Lasix, on firmer ground which many of them prefer, and with sometimes faster paces which sets up the big turn of foot closers that we see so often in Europe.
No one believes in the value of the figures more than me but since you can\'t analytically measure how much they jump up first time here, ruling any of them out on slow figures is not a great idea, especially at a price.
It\'s not really a question that the Euros will dominate this breeders cup again this year but I for one won\'t be too cute about which ones to use. If you leave any of the euros off the multi race exotic tickets, you are just asking to lose.
Second, the one race where the Euros won\'t likely have a dog in the hunt is the Sprint and is it just me or is Zensational setting up to be the next Henny Hughes or Lost in the Fog. Even good handicappers seemed to get wrapped up in the 3 year old sprinters that look brilliant beating up on 3 year olds early and then maybe beating a field of weak older horses once before the BC like both Henny and Zensational did. I believe that Zensational is setting up as the best bet against on the card if he\'s really going to be even money as all of the early lines suggest. First of all, I don\'t think he\'s as fast as many of the others but I have to see the sheets to confirm that. More importantly, the Sprint is one race where we have to acknowledge that pace has an impact if we get a few of them who normally get the lead in 22 and change but will need to go 21 flat to be ahead in this one. Fatal Bullet is likely to give Zensational all he can handle on the front end and set up a price in this race, especially given how speed tends to play at SA.
Thoughts?
