Lawyer Ron returns in St. Louis Derby

[Pedigree Ann]

Originally Posted by six perfections

Do you know if there's a replay anywhere?

Only if you subscribe to a service with a video library, I think. I watched and taped it on TVG. They will probably replay it sometime today.

Track was gooey after heavy rain the previous overnight, officially good but the horses came back pretty plastered with it. Ron sat back in fifth, 5 or 6 back of a quintet who made the early fractions. He moved up around horses on the turn and engaged the remaining leader, Lewis Micheal at the top of the stretch. He put that one away, but Smokeyjonessutton (one of my boxcar winners at Kee last spring) had slipped up the rail and was still running, too. Ron battled him for a bit, but was drawing away at the end. All in all, a good return race, the right sort of test for a horse that is not yet in optimum racing condition.