Synthetic to Dirt 'Improvers'
 

I'm trying to formulate a list of horses who would fit the I Want Revenge model. Aside from IWR, are there any recent (as in past year or so) synthetic-to-dirt horses who improved dramatically when switching to dirt? I'm drawing a blank...

Fab strike
Zenyatta
Well Armed
Papa Clem
Indian Blessing

Tiago

Bob Black Jack

who is the filly that Zenyatta was drubbing all year long last year that won at Belmont?

Intangaroo

Ginger Punch?? Hystericalady??

Recapturetheglory? His two on the AP synth were ugly..

didnt he set a world record on synth?

Are we talking about horses who ran on dirt first, and then didn't run well on synthetic? That's the case for many of the examples people have mentioned above. Ginger Punch, Indian Blessing, etc...

I think the point of the thread was to list horses who were strictly synthetic horses as they started their career, and then improved dramatically when switched to dirt. Not to list dirt horses who didn't care for synthetics.

Bob Black Jack was beaten 32 lengths in the Derby in his only dirt start.

More a matter of distance probably.

Lawyer Ron lost a pair of maiden claiming races on synethetic and exploded on the dirt to a dominant MSW win at 7/1.

Fabulous Strike only made one synthetic start in his career, in the BC Sprint last year. Zenyatta ran multiple races on synthetics that were better than her one dirt effort. Well Armed has three graded stakes wins on synthetics and five overall, with only two wins in five tries on dirt. Indian Blessing debuted on dirt and was undefeated in three starts before trying synthetics.

I think the intent of the thread is to point out horses who have been running exclusively (or mainly) on synthetics and are being switched to dirt, not just a one-race engagement.

NT

yeah, i know all that.

none of that really matters though, since it would still be useful data for a study like this.

Bob Black Jack was off a long time after the KD . He must have been injured during or prior to the race so he is not a good example of switching surfaces .

Tough Tiz's Sis?

yea thats it

I have the wrong horse then, who won the sprint race the fall of 07' at Belmont. Got like a 118, went from like 100 on syn to 118 if I remember.

thx, I knew black was in there.

Thanks all. Basically I'm trying to look into charecteristics or common traits amongst horses who struggled on synthetics but improved in noteworthy fashion to dirt. Do they have a visual trait common amongst them? Or.... etc.