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Originally Posted by Rupert Pupkin
He's not being chicken at all. He's planning on running the horse in the toughest race there is. He's planning on running him in the $5 million BC Classic. If he were chicken, he wouldn't be running him in there. Not only that, they are going to supplement him. If they were chicken in the least bit, they could use the fact that he's not nominated to the BC as an excuse not to run him.
The next race is only a prep race. The race is irrelevant compared to the Classic. The purse of the Goodwood is $400,000. The $5 million race is just a tiny bit more important than a $400,000 race. The purpose of the prep race for Lava Man is to prepare him for the Classic. O'Neil is going to choose the prep that gives LM the best chance to win the Classic. He obviously doen't want to have a really tough prep race. Even if he knew for sure that he would beat TheTin Man, he still would not want to run against him because you don't want your horse to have to fully exert himself in he prep race. LM has already had a hard campaign this year.
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Why didn't they supplement him earlier in the year when it was cheaper, with that new rule that was instated? or did the supplement him already?