covelj70 Wrote:
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well,
I watched a breeze from four days ago that clearly had him looking good. No sweat noted anywhere. If you watch it, note how high the exercise rider is up in the saddle, while the workmate\'s rider is down in speed posture. It looks like Larry Jones riding Eight Belle\'s, it\'s really quite comical.
Note also how the big exercise rider\'s foot comes out of the right stirrup on the near turn and again right at gear down time. Not sure if that signifies a problem or not, but it\'s a bit odd. Alone I\'d pay no significance to it, because to my eye the rider is trying to gear him down throughout and he\'s clearly on the proper lead in the stretch.
Now you\'re saying he came out to gallop today and looked sweated up and never got off the right lead? Well, Mike Welsh thought he galloped strong and a horse that isn\'t tired won\'t always change leads.
If you\'ve lost courage, that\'s your prerogative, but please don\'t come back after the race and say \"I stuck with him\". Like Dosage, the Apollo bubble is bound to burst. If you\'re gonna beat TGJB at his own game you gotta take him out when he\'s adamant about a trend. Pletcher leaves a lot of horse in the major Prep Races, but a lot of horse will one day overcome him.
Materiality 4/24> Never good when a horse gets hot a few days in a
> row and then stays on wrong lead in a gallop.
>
> breeze was good but not great and doesn\'t seem to
> have come out of it too well.
>
> clearly something bugging the horse. Maybe
> resolves itself before Sat but either way, don\'t
> think I can key this horse at this point
>
> it\'s too bad
>
> I really liked him
