Look at the trainers in the race. A tour de force of fine (turf) horsemen: Jerkens, Clement, Sheppard, Tagg, Motion, Voss, Henning, etc.
There are horses, and plenty of them, that just can't deal with the speed favoring 8.5F inner turf race. I'm just saying, give their connections an option, rather than forcing them to repeatedly run in these races.
As for sprints: I'm all for them, typically, but the 5.5F at SAR is a hard race to deal with over the course of 6 weeks.
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