Asmussen has now had a trio of expensive maidens with interesting breeding come up short at PID lately.
In tonights 5th race, a 3yo full sibling to Haskell winner and Belmont 2nd place finisher Bluegrass Cat finished 2nd in a MSW race, in career start #2. He was 3rd in his career debut earlier in the meet. He actually ran a pretty nice race, but had no responce at all to the Amoss trained runner who laid over the field.
In last Saturdays 3rd race, Asmussen had a 2yo debuter by Vindication that's a half sibling to Grade 1 winning millionaire Eddington. It cost 700K as a yearling. It was soundly defeated in a race won by a 250K Successful Appeal yearling buy for Amoss. A Paula Capestro trained son of Fu Peg who debuted at Del Mar ran quite well finishing 2nd.
Twice this meet, Silver Light, a Zayat owned 3yo half sibling to Super Derby winner Strong Contender has failed to win as the heavy favorite for Asmussen. He embarssingly lossed to a Glenn Wismer trained son of Cozar that scored at 33/1. The Wismer horse is acutally a full sibling to Calculating Man - who established the track record for six furlongs at a big odds upset, in an ALW race run late in the inaugural Keeneland polytrack meet. Calculating Man suffered a fatal breakdown right after the wire in the big win, and became the first horse to die from a racing injury suffered on the KEE poly.
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09-26-2007, 10:48 PM
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