Curlin retired?

[Quiet Chris]

Originally Posted by CSC

Pass The Point would have jumped up to a 108 - 109 then... This after being an average of about 90 in his career, though he did get a 103 for his last effort. Head scratching.

Post Edit, all this while setting contested fast fractions, either he is a very good horse on the upswing or the numbers are amiss.

He is obviously a year older and a better horse. He hadn't run on the dirt in over a year and it shouldn't be surprising that he ran a 108 or 109 yesterday considering his last race.

A 112 beyer is pretty much exactly what Curlin deserved based on the other races yesterday, but considering there was only the one other route it is hard to say how accurate the number was.

The JCGC will be the real test. He will have had his prep to get him fit and he will be running at his ideal distance. We will find out if Dubai took something out of him and he simply isn't the same horse as last year, or he will run huge and stamp his place in history.

He isn't beating a horse like Henrythenavigator in the BCC anyway, so if they were smart they wouldn't even bother to show up.