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Originally Posted by Grits
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Originally Posted by Ruffian1
No doubt about it Grits. Wants to be on his toe and weight off of it every chance he got.
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Certainly enough to question, but not enough there for me to have any opinion.
For all I know, this is twice as nice as he looked the morning after the Santa Anita Derby.
The 'youtube vets' already have him diagnosed as 'lame'. May be the normal process he deals with. Hopefully does not affect him in the Preakness. Would like to see a gallop between races, and check him out paddock/parade.
Unbeknownst to us, these guys deal with issues.
Magnum Moon was one I worried about. Here was a horse who was supposed to start as a 2yo at Saratoga, but missed 5 months training because of an ankle injury. A January 13th debut. Since the point-system change, only PATCH got a later start of all TAPs Derby Entrants. He won the Rebel Stakes and drifted out in the stretch. Then he won the Arkansas Derby and lugged out to the grandstand. Now what are you supposed to do?? Shut the horse down?? He just won a ticket to the Derby. Some 'experts' are actually picking him to win... You just heard Vic tell us that he was
a "Bad Moon On The RISEEE!!!"... You
can't shut him down now for something that only surfaces under stress.
That's a horse I tossed, and I pointed it out in the little video I did, but the main thing is you never want to see a horse get hurt. Finished only ahead of the eased/walked-off Mendelssohn, but apparently without major incident.
It's the reality of the game. We deal with probabilities as a gambler, and the connections deal with probabilities as well.
Hopefully that isn't the same kind of gamble that Justify will be placed in. All the recovery/rest in the world, even if he is 1000% for the Breeders Cup Classic, he'll
never get another shot at the 'Triple Crown'... The time is now, baby boy. Hopefully this is 'merely' a minor chronic issue, and he runs as huge in the Preakness as he did in the Derby. (103B/127TFUS are both 'low' and Good Magic actually ran surprisingly huge as well, to contend, but that's discussion for another thread).