Workouts are an interesting part of the game and I think Hooves was doing us all a favor in starting the thread.
I think certain works stick out more than others. Here was a situation where a work made it pretty clear of the trainer's intent:
Saturday's 6th race at Aqueduct was for NY bred MSW going a mile and 70. #4 CASH FOR GOLD had two starts, the first of which was useless, he did nothing and was beaten handily. In his second, over a muddy track, he made a slight early moev and then tired abruptly to finish ninth beaten 16 lengths. That race was on 12/29. He had one work between that start and Saturday's start, 21 days later. The workout was a half-mile in :47 and 4/5ths handily (his only workout that was rated handily) and was a bullet. He was also adding blinkers and switiching jocks form Alan Garcia to 5 lb. bug Aldo Arboleda. Clearly, trainer Jeremiah Englehart was looking for speed from this guy and he got it as he opened up off the far turn and was hard-pressed to hold on late.
That, to me, is a situation where a workout made a trainer's intent pretty clear and gave one plenty of reasons to think Cash for Gold was headed right to the early lead, a great place to be going a route on the inner track.
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