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Originally Posted by depalma113
The Japanese brought a horse, Lani, over a few years ago who improved in each leg of the Triple Crown. They proved American trainers and their spacing is, nothing but we are afraid to lose, nonsense.
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He was also a big, sturdy, sluggish tapit, whose preffered distance improved while his competition weakened through the series. Made a lot of sense that Lani would have his best race in the Belmont.
Some of the horses who ran in the Derby have been trained with a bunch of medications that are tough or impossible to fully utilize in two weeks. Many are also Mile, Mile-and-a-Sixteenth horses going longer for high% trainers.
I personally kind of like Caddo River. But, I don't think anyone will really defend his classic-distance ability. If anything I'd be the one giving him more of a chance in the right pace scenario.
Mandaloun got a dream trip in the Derby. Cox is one of the all time greats, but we've pretty much seen that Mandaloun is tough when he has things his own way, but is suspect enough that many players dismissed Mandaloun coming into the Derby for the vertical exotics. Now that he happened to get a dream trip and finish 2nd, he probably would have taken money in the Preakness, but he's also an Into Mischief who needs a trip and is trained by a guy who needs time to medicate between starts.
Lani was a fun horse. I haven't followed global racing as much as I would like to, but I have been seeing some more recent Japanese stock do well in spots. I'm not up to date with the Preakness possible shipper from Japan connections, but I'm thinking it may be one that was not successful in Dubai. Still something to watch for.