Majesticperfection - condylar fracture

[The Indomitable DrugS]

Originally Posted by Smooth Operator

Another dirt speed freak cracks after a few starts

Shocking

The Saratoga dirt track is demanding this meet. Majestic Perfection, Kantharos, and Winslow Homer all ended their careers with big stakes wins this meet... but all of them didn't exactly have the most sturdy of pedigrees.

This dirt track will make a man out of horses. You're seeing horses struggling home like they're in quicksand.

On Wedensday, you had a fading maiden collapse on the track just after the wire. Two races later, Timber Reserve broke both sesamoids on the backstretch - was pulled up and had to be euthanized.

On Friday, you had a daily double of breakdowns in the first two races. Some longshot broke down in race #1 - and the favorite broke down in deep stretch in Race #2 .. Kent Desormeaux was injured as a result of that one.

Of course, everyone knows a track is at its safest when it's nice and slow and cushy like they've had this one. The more horses have to struggle to get around it - the safer it obviously is... because it means it's a lot less like a paved highway...or so they tell me.