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BaroqueAgain1
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Batten Down (Tapit x Close Hatches) won the 1 3/16-mile Bourbon Flight Stakes for 3yos at Churchill with open-length ease. I don't know where he goes next, but he's in fine form now.
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Cigarillo
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BaroqueAgain1 wrote: Sat Sep 21, 2024 3:59 pm Batten Down (Tapit x Close Hatches) won the 1 3/16-mile Bourbon Flight Stakes for 3yos at Churchill with open-length ease. I don't know where he goes next, but he's in fine form now.
I think that was a track record at 9.5f.
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Sat Sep 21, 2024 9:43 pm

Batten Down runs away with Bourbon Flight Stakes, sets track record
https://www.drf.com/news/batten-down-ru ... ack-record
ForTheThrill
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Sat Sep 28, 2024 7:06 pm

Dornoch retired to Spendthrift due to bone bruising.

https://www.thoroughbreddailynews.com/d ... g-setback/
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Sat Sep 28, 2024 7:14 pm

Well, that clears up the Champion Three Year Old Eclipse a little bit.
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Sat Sep 28, 2024 7:15 pm

and in 3 years he'll be shipped out of the country and largely forgotten aside from "the two brothers that won classic races".
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CoronadosQuest
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Sat Sep 28, 2024 7:19 pm

So bummed about Dornoch :( Hope he does well at stud
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CoronadosQuest wrote: Sat Sep 28, 2024 7:19 pm So bummed about Dornoch :( Hope he does well at stud
That is a bummer
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Sat Sep 28, 2024 7:45 pm

Northport wrote: Sat Sep 28, 2024 7:14 pm Well, that clears up the Champion Three Year Old Eclipse a little bit.
Yeah. I don’t think he deserves it.
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Sat Sep 28, 2024 7:52 pm

Wonder what happened to Muth in the California Crown? He looked like he was making a bid on the far turn and then JJ stopped riding him and he just started to drop back. He finished the race though, from what I saw.
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Izvestia wrote: Sat Sep 28, 2024 7:47 pm Also, 2 days ago…
https://www.bloodhorse.com/horse-racing ... up-classic
gonna go on a limb and guess they knew abt it well before making that statement. heavy sigh.
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sweettalk wrote: Sat Sep 28, 2024 7:53 pm
Izvestia wrote: Sat Sep 28, 2024 7:47 pm Also, 2 days ago…
https://www.bloodhorse.com/horse-racing ... up-classic
gonna go on a limb and guess they knew abt it well before making that statement. heavy sigh.
Absolutely they knew. Why even bother. Crappy journalism.
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Izvestia wrote: Sat Sep 28, 2024 7:59 pm
sweettalk wrote: Sat Sep 28, 2024 7:53 pm
Izvestia wrote: Sat Sep 28, 2024 7:47 pm Also, 2 days ago…
https://www.bloodhorse.com/horse-racing ... up-classic
gonna go on a limb and guess they knew abt it well before making that statement. heavy sigh.
Absolutely they knew. Why even bother. Crappy journalism.
I wasn't going to bother ranting, until I read that Sept 26 article just now. Two days ago he was looking good, but today he says the horse hadn't been training well?

His below par run in the Travers was over a month ago, so now they decide to give him a once over?

He's that trainer/ownership group's horse of a lifetime, that whole line of reasoning just doesn't make a ton of sense.

Bizarre. Oh well, looking forward to another 4-5 horse field of older horses in the Woodward and California Crown next year. And 45 Dornoch yearlings at KEESEPT27.
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Northport wrote: Sat Sep 28, 2024 8:16 pm
Izvestia wrote: Sat Sep 28, 2024 7:59 pm
sweettalk wrote: Sat Sep 28, 2024 7:53 pm

gonna go on a limb and guess they knew abt it well before making that statement. heavy sigh.
Absolutely they knew. Why even bother. Crappy journalism.
I wasn't going to bother ranting, until I read that Sept 26 article just now. Two days ago he was looking good, but today he says the horse hadn't been training well?

His below par run in the Travers was over a month ago, so now they decide to give him a once over?

He's that trainer/ownership group's horse of a lifetime, that whole line of reasoning just doesn't make a ton of sense.

Bizarre. Oh well, looking forward to another 4-5 horse field of older horses in the Woodward and California Crown next year. And 45 Dornoch yearlings at KEESEPT27.
Yep. Uninterested in this part of the game.
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Sat Sep 28, 2024 9:45 pm

Confused on how Muth still got a Equibase speed figure in the hundreds when he finished dead last, beaten almost 16 lengths and never posed a real real threat.
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Essential Quality wrote: Sat Sep 28, 2024 9:45 pm Confused on how Muth still got a Equibase speed figure in the hundreds when he finished dead last, beaten almost 16 lengths and never posed a real real threat.
I've noticed on Equibase, the speed figures for West coast tracks are much higher than the rest of the country. I've had friends ship a couple of horses to the East Coast and poof, their speed figures go down.

That's the one thing that came to mind.
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Sat Sep 28, 2024 10:49 pm

Yeah Equibase numbers are nonsense and best ignored.

Muth didn’t really get position on the first turn, got caught a little wide, and just didn’t seem to have it. His last effort didn’t really suggest that he’d be competitive here, and chances are pretty good that this was the last time we’ll see him, unfortunately.
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Sat Sep 28, 2024 11:12 pm

CoronadosQuest wrote: Sat Sep 28, 2024 7:52 pm Wonder what happened to Muth in the California Crown? He looked like he was making a bid on the far turn and then JJ stopped riding him and he just started to drop back. He finished the race though, from what I saw.
There is a video of him in the saddling area on Twitter. He looked dull and walking awkwardly like he was sore.
https://x.com/Jxstinnnnn/status/1840170322324316423

I wouldn't be surprised if he gets retired after that effort because he is a Good Magic colt, and Zedan wants to recoup some money in the breeding shed.
I wanna do bad things with you.
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Sun Sep 29, 2024 12:47 am

His walk is awful. I hope he wasn’t sore… the trainer should know better than to run him sore.
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