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Originally Posted by The Indomitable DrugS
When he got the horse about three and a half months ago, he got a horse who'd just won a MSW sprint race in wire-to-wire fashion, in supersonic time.
Through Asmussen's "Quarter horse training" -- he's managed to turn what looked like a speed sprinter/miler, into a deep closing router....who was 13 lengths off the pace in the Preakness, inspite of constant urging from his rider to try to get him to pick it up.
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Many horses who are not sprinter/milers win their debuts over sprint distances and do so brilliantly because of their superior class. Swaps, Nashua, Tom Fool, Affirmed, Buckpasser, are those who come to the mind of this old fogey and they managed a distance beyond 10f just fine.