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Originally Posted by slotdirt
Perfect Drift lost this race last year to like Super Frolic or some other nag, IIRC.
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Here's what I don't understand about Perfect Drift, everyone says that he loves to run 2nd or 3rd and that he is common, but there were 3 times where I was at the track and saw him run and he showed the winning killer instinct. The first was in March of 2002 in the Spiral Stakes, he ran by a pretty nice Request For Parole to win. The other two times he got the ideal setups, but he still won. In June of 2003 in the Stephen Foster, Mineshaft had a horrendous trip and horrible ride, but he was the best horse that year and Perfect Drift ran him down, the other time was in September of 2003, when Congaree was on the worst part of the track in the Kentucky Cup, but Perfect Drift did win. How did he go from that to running second, maybe it's the trainers fault. I like this horse and next to Cat Thief, I have probably seen him run in person, more than any other top horse and even though he looked good in the Stephen Foster, I think that was a very bad field and made him look better than he really might be, I wouldn't be surprised to see him lose this race...