Pedigree ignored in placement

[Linny]

Back in the 80's all these 3rd rate sons of Northern Dancer wre hitting the stud in secondary markets like NY and it took forever before trainers figured out that they were grass bred. I'd have figured that by now Finger Lakes could have filled their sumer schedule with offspring of stallions like that. Now it's Freud, a full to Giant's Causeway. In fact GC is now old enough that some of his 2nd tier sons are here too.

Now that the turf sprint is here to stay, a whole new bunch of stallions have options for success.

I was told by a fairly good trainer some time ago that in mamy cases trainers do know that a horse is route bred, but they don't think they have the best wind so they keep them short. In the winter it can be tough to train enough into them to stretch them out.