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Originally Posted by hrfan
people keep saying turf miler, why ? ? because everyone thinks it, he was a world class horse on the dirt, and never went on turf, he won the Kings Bishop and was super competitive in the biggest races of the year.
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In part because his sire Danzig was a great sire of turf milers.
I spoke for 20 minutes with Larry Jones while standing in the Saratoga stakes barn with Hard Spun. Larry felt he would have been a monster on grass and mentioned conformation points plus temperament/manageability reasons why he felt this was. Larry knew more about this colt than the colt did and I tend to believe his assessment of his horse.
Larry indicated that after his maiden, Larry hoped to talk Porter into agreeing to try grass. After the stud deal was announced, one of Jone's biggest disappointments was that he was never going to get to go on grass.