INVASOR: Injury ends career

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Originally Posted by RolloTomasi

What about Lava Man? And Flashy Bull and Papi Chullo have improved leaps and bounds in recent weeks.

I have to disagree with you on a couple of fronts here.
1) I don't think Flashy Bull has improved "leaps and bounds" in recent weeks. Over two months ago he stalked some allowance horses and pounced on them on the turn to win and post a 105 Beyer Speed Figure. Then in the Foster he did the same thing........and posted another 105. In between those two races, he defeated the mighty Hesanoldsalt by a head while actually getting weight from Old Salty that day. He is a decent horse, but I just don't see any real improvement over the last two months.
2) Lava Man? He has a very good career in SoCal, but he has never been able to win outside of that place, and the fact that he lost his most recent start there MIGHT indicate that he is begining to slip a little.
3) Papi Chullo? No.

I agree with Danzig in that pointing to these three as the examples of why the handicap division is not a joke, isn't particularly convincing in my opinion.