Small's a 5% trainer who in 16 starts never ran the horse on turf or synth (although it looks like he tried once). . . The horse was certainly nothing special for Small, but he ran a few decent enough races topped by that 97 Beyer over Bullsbay in last year's J. Campbell. To believe that he moved up on a different surface (his dam was a turfer and her two sibs who made it to the races were turfers as well) - the proper surface - by what? an average of 12 Beyer points? isn't really anything to be amazed by. I'm not a Baffert fan, but I don't really see this as a blatant case of juicing by any stretch.
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