Sun. Misc.

How smart (dumb) is this? You take your synthetic track horse and breeze him 6f in the slop under 1:12 and 7f in 1:26 on Sat. before Derby when you might have waited all the way to Tues. for a better track.

From experience, the red clay KY tracks are very navigable in the mud at speed. Yet, we know: wet tracks cause geometrically greater concussion at speed. Add that Sydney Candy was conditioned on synthetics and the question becomes, can this horse survive such foolery in terms of any injury. Why would they take the chance? And, stop the questions on Sadler there. And, whoops. Just saw. Plecher horse out. Surprise, surprise.

For us, once again. About 2 inches of precip over 3 days and another 3 days to dry--a lost week, after 3 good weeks. How this will rate out depends on what follows. The horse has been off since Thurs. due to deep mud. Good Sunday to all!