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Originally Posted by 10 pnt move up
thats a bad race right there, dont want any of them
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Gotta give It Tiz Well another go of it next time. Mike Smith made a mess of her race. She was coming off a short layoff (~60 days) and may have been a bit fresh. She broke very sharply and could have gone straight to the front (she showed plenty of early speed in her maiden and 3rd career start), but Smith chose to try and wrangle her back resulting in a battle of wills between him and the filly for the first 1/2 mile. She ended up taking out Cerin's filly on the first turn while rank, then ran up on heels down the backstretch forcing Smith to check her sharply which also ended up causing runner-up Mopotism to check as well. Then Smith proceeded to sheepishly travel along the rail in the stretch, but wouldn't commit to an all out effort and ended up having to steady again when stablemate Spooky Woods came in a bit.
End result was It Tiz Well got to do almost no real running and the stablemate was DQ'd, losing valuable black-type status in the process.