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Originally Posted by RolloTomasi
You gotta be sh!tting me. Many months? The Bel Air was traditionally run the last weekend of the spring/summer Hollywood meet. The Ramser (when it was a dirt race for older horses) was run opening week of the Oak Tree meet (late September-October). He basically missed the Del Mar meet, and what a shame, whatwith its all important races for older horses at the time (ie the non-graded Cabrillo Handicap).
By my count, he skipped all of 2 months.
Of course, if you believe everything you read in Dr. Seuss's "Wacky Wednesday", well then we still have the month of Octember to deal with, too.
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My mistake. It was only 20 years ago. The actual layoff was a bit short of three months.
However, Drysdale had him working long and slow, which was typical of him back then. He was just about the lowest % trainer off a layoff back then on that circuit. I did bet him in his comeback race, but I was not comfortable seeing that his 'best' work coming back for that race was 7f in around 1:30, with the rest even slower.
If you think Present Value was a better horse than Rahy you are nuts.