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Originally Posted by burnsy
Agree, that’s a horse worth looking at . Moved early in prep, lightly raced , improvement possible. Distance probably not a problem.
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He's a solid horse. If he gets a decent setup, I could see him having a shot for 4th or so.
In some of those races, a horse like Practical Move had such a dream trip and beat Skinner with ease, where Skinner did about the same amount of running due to the trip.
Skinner wasn't unluckly. He made his bed there. The difference in tactical speed and running style is what resulted in those scenarios.
Skinner also had a nice looking race in the Del Mar Futurity.
If you just look at the flow in a vacuum, Skinner went against the grain and did some running against nice horses.
Cave Rock ran a '120' TimeformUS figure in the Del Mar Futurity, and that would fit in for this Kentucky Derby field.
Again, in the Del Mar Futurity; Skinner didn't get early position, and the 'merry-go-round' flow was very much due to Cave Rock's easy and big performance, with stablemate Havenameltdown basically chasing him. The pace was honest.
Simply, the two best horses that day were the Baffert stablemates. The herd chased further back in mid-pack and no one other than skinner did much running from off the pace. Skinner ran a solid race that day as well, but it wasn't as pretty as his raw chart appeared.