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Originally Posted by philcski
I guess I'm curious to see Big Brown to run on dirt anyways. Any idea on what type of race that has come back? I only distinctly recall seeing one horse out of it, a month or so ago at GP, and he didn't run well.
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I guess I got my answer. Just as well as on turf, if not better.
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Originally Posted by blackthroatedwind
That's silly but he's got a lot of talent.
It's hard to judge the mile races versus 7F races, as in general the miles have been much slower, perhaps due to the insufficient run-up, but both maiden races were run in 1:23 1/5. Both of those winners are promising, and I don't think it's unfair to say that his 1:35 3/5 is four to six lengths faster than those races.
I haven't watched Gulfstream....is it a sealed track? If so that makes all the races tricky to take on face value. However, no matter how you cut it, Big Brown can run.
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Seems like this has to be the case, based on the internal fractions with legitimate horses at a mile. Almost all have the 2nd quarter better than the 1st, as was the case with this race.
I definitely agree. Big Brown is listed at 150-1 currently in the Vegas future book. I'll be in Nevada in a couple weeks, and will definitely take a flier at that price, mostly because I know IEAH will do everything they can to get him there, and outside of War Pass I haven't seen a colt that can run with him.