2024 Three Year Olds

[BaroqueAgain1]

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.

[Cigarillo]

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.

[Starine]

Batten Down runs away with Bourbon Flight Stakes, sets track record
https://www.drf.com/news/batten-down-ru ... ack-record

[ForTheThrill]

Dornoch retired to Spendthrift due to bone bruising.

https://www.thoroughbreddailynews.com/d ... g-setback/

[Northport]

Well, that clears up the Champion Three Year Old Eclipse a little bit.

[sweettalk]

and in 3 years he'll be shipped out of the country and largely forgotten aside from "the two brothers that won classic races".

[CoronadosQuest]

So bummed about Dornoch Hope he does well at stud

[barbaro111]

So bummed about Dornoch Hope he does well at stud

That is a bummer

[Izvestia]

Well, that clears up the Champion Three Year Old Eclipse a little bit.

Yeah. I don’t think he deserves it.

[Izvestia]

Also, 2 days ago…
https://www.bloodhorse.com/horse-racing ... up-classic

[CoronadosQuest]

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.

[sweettalk]

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.

[Izvestia]

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.

[Northport]

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.

[Izvestia]

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.

[Essential Quality]

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.

[Cigarillo]

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.

[Tessablue]

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.

[Psychotic Parakeet]

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.

[Izvestia]

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