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Originally Posted by classhandicapper
Now 4 weeks rest is coming back too quick?
Soon the Triple Crown will be run on the 1st Saturday of May in 3 consecutive years. We can run the Derby, Preakness, and Belmont all on the same day with 3 different crops.
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For the past 10 months, Al Stall has wasted his breath telling us all the races Tom d'Etat
was going to run in but for one reason or another never made it.
After he won the Clark he was supposed to run in the Pegasus, Saudi Cup, and Dubai World Cup.
Then he was supposed to run in the New Orleans Handicap, then he was supposed to run in the Oaklawn Handicap.
Then he decided he wanted to run in a 10 furlong race and said he'd ship to SA for the Gold Cup. Then he said he would run in the Blame Stakes as a prep for the Stephen Foster.
They can talk all they want about how "well" he runs fresh but the fact of the matter is that the two horses he defeated in his wins this year, Improbable and By My Standards, both continue to make starts and progress to top form while he sits in the barn. Coincidentally both reversed form on Tom's d'Etat in the Whitney with the aid of the latter's tardy start but there's also a decided fitness edge that is going to be an important factor on BC day.
