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Originally Posted by SniperSB23
Can anyone name the last time O'Neill won with a shipper beyond a mile and a sixteenth? All his horses going longer seem to spit the bit around that mile and sixteenth mark outside of California but just grow stronger at that point in California. Pretty amazing phenomenom.
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Four times in the last five years....
The last time was this summer when Shamdinan in the Secretariat ( 1 1/4 turf ). Prior to that Tedo won the Wildcat at Turf Paradise at 1 3/8 on the grass on April 30th 2006. Thor's Echo won the WinStar Derby in April of 2005 at Sunland Park and Supah Blitz won the Carl Rose at Calder in November 2004. Both those races were 1 1/8th on the dirt.
He is 15 for 101 at a mile or over outside of California in the last five years. One was at a mile ( Sky Jack in the Longacres Mile at Emerald Downs in August of 2003 ) and the rest were at 1 1/16th. His ROI, for what it's worth, is 1.45 for those starts.
At 1 1/8th and over his record is 34 starts with 4 wins 2 seconds and 1 third.