Kev I singled the winner in the pik-6 and have to tell you that Sly Diamond is a dime stopping dog. His only win came with the aid of a supremely speed biased sloppy track in which he made a ridculously easy lead. the horse ran the exact same race he ran yesterday a time or two before. Seemingly homefree and then grabbed. Hes a mutt, the kind who just plain stops no matter what the pace is. Trust me, thats not the last time hes gonna pull that act on you. The winner was given a bad ride as well, horrible to be exact. He had the winner to close to the pace off the bat and tried to put him in a drive on the backside(total stretch runner you should sit still on until the top of the lane) and he was wider than he needed to be.
The reason Cruz was on him is because hes a crazy rogue according to my clocker. Last time he was entered he was scratched in the paddock because he was so insane that he refused to be saddled. Thats the kind of horse that a top rider says no ****ing thanks when offered the ride, The two grand he can make for winning the race as opposed to a possible stint in a wheelchair just isnt worth it. My clocker said he had trained much better since the paddock incident and his first two sheet numbers were better than anything that anyone in the field had EVER run!!! You toss out the speed favoring sealed track he lost on last time and figure all he had to do was run down a dimestopper and the race pretty much went according to script. Trust me, Diamond Jim will stop on you again if you bet him and he actually was ridden to perfection. Kev he most likely has a breathing problem and the only way to get one of those horses home in front is to open up daylight and get so far in front that they cant catch you. If you try to sit chilly and slow down the tempo all it does is keep the opponents lapped onto you as you turn for home and when he feels that pressure he stops even worse.
I like to think I know a thing or two about watching races and trust me, that horse came home the last 1/4 in about 28, or slower than pacers at the Meadowlands come home in. Hes a dime stopper that i can guess with a HIGH degree of certainty has a lazy flap or palate who can't breathe real well in the lane. Forget him, hes Finger lakes bound after he wins that condition(if he ever wins it).