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Asmussen slapping blinkers on a deep closer in an apparent effort to ensure the horse doesn't finish strongly.
I suppose waiting til race day and simply adding equipment is more convenient then taking the time to put speed into the horse during his morning training or maybe trying to book the same jockey for all his races rather than the musical jockeys the horse has been exposed to since the fall?
Also, begs the question why he bothered to enter the speedy but unseasoned Harlocap in there? Would have made sense to force a solid pace for the late runner, but if you want the late runner to lay closer how's that going to help?
Supertrainer mentality. Simply throw the quasi-unlimited resources against the wall and see what sticks. Brad Cox getting a sense of that too this season. Didn't he have about 12 horses on the Derby trail a few weeks ago?
At least Baffert, with his 16 nominations to a single race at Santa Anita back in February and nothing to show for it now has a built-in excuse...
Speaking of Baffert, Cave Rock didn't enter the Hot Springs undercard race and hasn't worked in nearly 2 weeks after getting his feet held to the fire with a ridiculously aggressive recent worktab. Won't expect him in the Preakness now.
At this point I just hope he doesn't emulate Corniche's 3yo campaign...
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