4 turf races at the SPA on Friday and I have opinions on all of them BUT this one is probably the most interesting.
Emirates to Dubai, freshly graduated, PERFECT TRIP last out:
sat INSIDE, drafting while a couple went at it at the front and My Michael, the competition, was at the end of the pack early (why?)
so My Michael makes a long and wide run to get to contention entering the stretch and at that point EtD FINALLY is asked to kick in and draws off like a nice horse. The last 1/8 being FASTER than the penultimate 1/8th and the laster quarter faster than the middle one.
So, EtD did some running, perfect trip and all.
And he figures to get a nice setup, even breaking from the outside, with all the speed in the race:
Guns DRawn: they paid $210k for the guy, who is the only TBRED that can't get 5F
Last I heard, they were going to check his DNA for Qhorse genes.
Unaffected figures to be out there as well, although, GD quits on his own, pressure or otherwise
Then we have Snowstalker (zzzzzzzzzz) and the $230k Big Train (zzzzzzzzz, again)
And the $950K Unbridled Trust, yet to try the turf. What's his breeding like?
And, from the group that brought us Trippi's Storm,
we have the (UNGELDED --they learned their lesson) Gold Trippi, who's actually run against some nice horses --though he looked TERRIBLE (formwise) in the stretch against CP West ---(looked like one of Pat Reynolds horses)
Hough has everything running in his barn. And, of course, you won't get a price on this one.
ANd you won't get a price on EtD.
What am I missing?
