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Originally Posted by Calzone Lord
I would say it had very little at all to do with how Flat Out was training.
I would think the reason (any sharp Kentucky) horsemen (with at least one halfway ok horse) most likely wanted to know if FO was going to Lone Star - was because the Lone Star Park Handicap had a 300K purse, Graded status, and handicap conditions ... and it only ended up as a field of five with Flat Out.
If Flat Out doesn't go - it's a field of four and becomes a very attractive spot to run.
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And it's not an attractive place to run with five horses, one of whom is coming off a five month layoff, preceded by a 19-month layoff? Bull. How many times are trainers, with horses good enough to be considered for a $300k G3, worried enough that several of them ask specifically about the plans of a horse who has done nothing but win a $50,000 3YO stake in January 2009 and a non-descript allowance event at the Fair Grounds in December 2010?