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Post by Unusual Pete on Sept 18, 2018 13:42:16 GMT -5
Don't feel Oscar Performance is getting the credit he deserves for his ultra impressive effort. It offers the rarest of feats, each furlong faster than the last. Ed Burgart might say,"Getting stronger as the race gets longer." Feel badly for #5 in there who the locals had ready to pop more than he'd ever been before and is likely to ever be again. Just ran into a world beating monster. Any other day.
Heard migliore state Oscar Performance has never fired over "sand based turf courses." He therefore feels he's a bet against in November at CD. Question, which US courses fit that category?
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Post by propro on Sept 19, 2018 0:14:37 GMT -5
Pete, Oscar finished well after a setting a really soft pace, but I wouldn't put too much into the time. While his quarters were faster, I don't think the clock was right. I timed it off the replay and it's 134 and a piece with an even slower 49 and change half. Trakus agrees with me and lists these...24.77, 49.28, 1:12.30, 1:22.90, 1:34.03. The tenth is a mess too with that short about 9f. Woodbine doesn't believe their own fractions so they chose not to post them.
If Churchill, Del Mar and maybe Keeneland are the courses he didn't fire on, CD and Kee were his first two back off a layoff and Del Mar was the BC Turf going 12f against the best in the world. Maybe the Mig is right, but he has other excuses (short off the layoff and then facing the best in the world in the BC).
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Post by Deleted on Sept 19, 2018 10:35:05 GMT -5
Did they ever say why he was pulled up in the Arlington Million? I always shake my head that we disclose equipment changes and other minor stuff while never explaining DNF. Could be anything from an equipment issue to lameness and there is no way for the handicapper to know.
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Post by Badactor on Sept 19, 2018 12:51:20 GMT -5
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Post by 1hooper on Sept 19, 2018 12:53:33 GMT -5
The wagering favorite in Saturday's Arlington Million, Oscar Performance was pulled up sharply in mid-stretch by jockey Jose Ortiz. The 4-year-old colt walked on to the horse ambulance under his own power, and was vanned off the course back to his stable. The on-track veterinarian saw no immediate signs of distress.
According to drf.com, Ortiz told trainer Brian Lynch that Oscar Performance took a pair of bad steps at the eighth pole. The jockey knew his mount was beaten, so he pulled the horse up as a “precautionary measure.”
“I watched him cool out here — everything seems intact,” Lynch said. “Obviously tomorrow morning will be the tell-tale, but as of right now it looks good.”
“He seems OK,” Lynch told NYRA publicity on Sunday morning. “To us, it wasn't anything real apparent after the race, but Jose said he definitely took a bad step,” Lynch said. “He did the right thing and eased him up. When he got back to the barn, you couldn't see anything on him, so just to be on the ultra-conservative side, we're having [Rood and Riddle] to do an evaluation and make sure there's nothing that we're missing.”
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