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Old 04-01-2019, 03:22 PM
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4/6 (AQU): WOOD MEMORIAL ~ 100-40-20-10

Tax (Gargan)
Haikal (McLaughlin)
Joevia (Sacco)
Tacitus (Mott)
Final Jeopardy (Ja. Servis)
Grumps Little Tots (Ja. Servis)
Outshine (Pletcher)
Overdeliver (Pletcher)
Not That Brady (Rodriguez)

Dessman (Baffert)
Much Better (Baffert)

Watching some replays, Dressman would be intriguing in the Wood. Watch his trip at Oaklawn on Rebel day.

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Old 04-01-2019, 04:06 PM
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Watching some replays, Dressman would be intriguing in the Wood. Watch his trip at Oaklawn on Rebel day.
I’m trying to recall - didn’t he have a pretty bad start to that race?
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Old 04-01-2019, 11:47 PM
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I’m trying to recall - didn’t he have a pretty bad start to that race?
Got left , raced wide, poorly ridden, could have won if the kid angled out turning for home to give his mount some room to roll on by. He was already wide, why not shift out ?
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Old 04-02-2019, 04:25 AM
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Espinoza still heading to Aqueduct Saturday, but only for Much Better in Bay Shore; Dessman to pass Wood, per Baffert
Jay Privman, Aqueduct / Apr 1, 2019, 11:33 PM

Victor Espinoza will still travel to New York on Saturday to ride Much Better for trainer Bob Baffert in the seven-furlong Bay Shore at Aqueduct, but Dessman -- who had been considered for the Wood Memorial -- will not travel for that race, in which Espinoza would have ridden him, Baffert informed Monday night.

Baffert said that upon evaluating Dessman's workout earlier Monday at Santa Anita, it was not satisfactory to put him in a race like the Wood. Dessman most recently was second in an allowance race at Oaklawn on Rebel day, so the Wood would have been his second race in three weeks, both involving traveling.

Baffert said he was "not sure" where Dessman would run next.
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Old 04-01-2019, 06:01 PM
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Watching some replays, Dressman would be intriguing in the Wood. Watch his trip at Oaklawn on Rebel day.
Mike Watchmaker pointed out that although the trip compromised Dessman, ultimately the race was slow; by a full second vs. all the subsequent stakes races and even 3/5 off a maiden special weight for 3yos run in the very next race.

If Dessman starts and runs well, perhaps he'll act as a barometer for the Oaklawn horses vs. the NY crop.
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