Lava Man

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Originally Posted by King Glorious

There is this little local paper, The Daily Racing Form, and three of their four Del Mar handicappers had him picked second. He was the consensus selection to win.

How can you be the consensus selection to win if nobody places you first ?

I didn't look at the DRF consensus (never worked for me <g>). I saw that Brad Free, the main DelMar DRF guy, placed him third behind Hello Sunday and Big Booster; Ellis Star from Equibase put him third behind AP Xcellent, Tiago. I didn't see the rags, TG had LM very vunerable, and the exacta results as very, very likely based on their analysis.

Interesting comments on the Siro's handicapping show this morning, from Cary Fotias. He said he noticed that at Keeneland, the times over the Polytrack are good (meaning reasonable for the class and ability of the horses), but that Del Mar Polytrack is indeed playing extremely slow time-wise. They ran out of time, so couldn't talk about it further, wish they could have.