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Originally Posted by dilanesp
I think this is half true.
There ARE two innovations here:
1. That even if you may want to get to the racetrack earlier than Justify did, you are not trying to win a bunch of 2 year old stakes. You used to see horses go Sanford-Hopeful-Cowdin-Champagne-Laurel Futurity or Hollywood Juvenile-Del Mar Futurity-Norfolk-Hollywood Futurity. You never see that anymore. The big operations are trying to keep something in the tank so that they can peak on Derby day and want to race very lightly as a 2 year old.
2. In the old days, a horse with Justify's physical problems who didn't start until the winter would have never been pointed to the TC.
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Fair enough 
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