California Flag

[DaTruth]

Originally Posted by Scav

Anyone else see his race in Hong Kong? Irish told me to watch this morning and he ran absolutely monsterous again, nose away from 4th after taking all of it on the lead. Kornier really has this horse going good right now.

http://www.hkjc.com/english/press/showcase.asp

Did you notice how Cal Flag kept turning his head to the left coming down the stretch. I'm not sure if he does this on the regular basis, but I wonder if maybe he was somewhat confused after making the right turn. He might have thought he was back at Santa Anita for one of those turf sprints and he was looking for the left turn and then the dirt crossover.

[philcski]

Originally Posted by DaTruth

Did you notice how Cal Flag kept turning his head to the left coming down the stretch. I'm not sure if he does this on the regular basis, but I wonder if maybe he was somewhat confused after making the right turn. He might have thought he was back at Santa Anita for one of those turf sprints and he was looking for the left turn and then the dirt crossover.

Probably. Most horses that race in the US need a lot of training to learn to race a right turn.