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Originally Posted by dilanesp
This is what I had thought happened at the time, but I stopped believing that after the Belmont. I don't know WHY MTB got so good, but he got really good for 3 races.
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So his winning 3 stakes (consequetively) in Canada as a 2 year old (before he ran in the TC races in the U.S and did well). don't count?
(purses were $100K, $150K, and $250K).
Then he went to high altitude racing up there in Sunland, (he ran 2nd in the Borderland and 4th I think in the Sunland) before coming to the ky derby. That put some peak oxygen and heart "fitness" into him.
He also had the pedigree for classic distance.
At any rate, he was good for more than 3 races.
