toppled,
I thought once he arrived at CD he was really up against it. Due to some of the reasons you cite. The days before they put him on a plane, then the logistics of being in Arlington to later be shipped to Skylight in Kentucky.
When the horse was not allowed his normal diet, the travel, training on the synthetic surface.
He was short on TG numbers to begin with, add in all other factors and that some people said when the horse got to CD he looked travel weary and drawn. That should be enough to consider him a non-threat in this field. Having said that, I still had him in various places on several tickets, even though he truly was an underlay.
I thought he ran okay running back to his established TG numbers. We all know running back to already slow numbers isn't gonna cut it.
Maybe in the future, horseman from Dubai will learn from this and make adjustments. If they keep sending horses over here that have been running 3's and 4's, they'll keep running up the track.
