Perfect Fleetheart
– The SoCal filly remains unbeaten after wiring Hollywood’s Wednesday opener as the 3-2 favorite. Fleetheart could start next in a Del Mar stakes race. Considering how well she’s handled everything asked of her so far (up in class, surface change, stretching out, etc.), it’s exciting to contemplate how she might perform at the stakes level …
– Trainer Steve Asmussen is the subject of a lengthy and sympathetic profile that gets right into the doping rumors: “People who say I’m a cheater? Well, that’s the dumbest thing I ever heard,” he says. “On average, mine cost a 100 [thousand], yours cost 10 [thousand], and you’re wondering why I’m beating you? It ain’t any kind of drugs or anything else. The horses are just faster.” Well, that clears things up.
– Paul Moran is right: “[Invasor] may be the most under-appreciated superstar thoroughbred of the modern era.” Invasor was a star on the verge of true greatness in the very classical sense of sheer class dominance. We don’t see much of that anymore.
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