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Originally Posted by Calzone Lord
This is turning into another injury-fest like last year...the only difference is that there where really only three and a half good horses to start with in last years crop and this years crop is considerably deeper.
Horses are racing less and less with so much more time between starts -- and just getting to May is becoming more and more a battle of attrition all the time.
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The horses that actually have foundation and prior stakes experience seem to be doing fine. Fed Biz, Algorithms, Consortium, Out Of Bounds, et al. were all late to the scene, bum rushing to get earnings. More often than not, those horses meltdown in the Derby anyways even if they make it (see Bodemeister).
I think O'Prado Again is the only major 2yo stakes winner absent.