Cigar

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Originally Posted by cmorioles

While I agree with all this, it still is pretty dumb that a horse that displayed his talent on dirt was basically never tried on it again until the horse changed connections. Even then it seems it was done more on a whim than anything else. It was a last ditch effort. If I owned a horse after that maiden win, there is NO WAY IN HELL I'm not giving him many more chances on dirt.

No doubt. But I think most of whatever blame needs to be assigned should fall towards Bill Mott. It seems like Cigar (and the maiden win) was lost in the shuffle of his massive stable. Allen Paulson probably had several horses with similar profiles as Cigar in Mott's barn (Geri and Dowty to name two), so it's not really a surprise he was slow in figuring him out.

Had Cigar stayed in one piece in CA, I would guess that Alex Hassinger wouldn't have missed an opportunity to run Cigar in the Strub series (just like many of the horses that were running in the same turf races as he was in the summer).