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Originally Posted by Pedigree Ann
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.
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Has one ever gone from winning his debut wire-to-wire sprinting....getting a better figure than a couple of Graded Stakes around one turn on the same card...and than won a race just three months later from 13 lengths off the pace....being that far out of it, at 9.5 furlongs, inspite of their jockey urging them to put them in the race?
Anyway...the fact that Asmussen once came from a quarter horse background will have nothing to do with this horses ability to see out the distance Saturday.
He's done a remarkable job of training (prehaps I should say draining) the speed out of him so far. It's hard to argue with the results he's got from doing it though.