I was standing on the rail during the post parade and Tonalist appeared very agitated, was loud where I was with lots of screaming fans, it seemed the crowd or maybe something else was bothering him. I am not surprised he received a rank notation, he became a toss for me after viewing him on track.

Maybe the numbers from DRF are wrong then, they have 11.97 final 1/8, I double checked. Thanks for the input from everyone. Hope you guys that are coming to BC have a good time @ Keeneland, I think they have done a good job of adding more seating without taking much away from the overall appearance. Will be there almost every day from now to BC, let me know if I can help anyone with a little local knowledge of the area. Couple quick places for dining..Blue Door Smokehouse or Malone\'s (Steak)...at the track try some Burgoo or Bread Pudding

Ok, my numbers were showing he was 1:13.12, 1:25.09

Horse 7, race 3 for the upcoming Kee Weds card (10/14). The race in question was his last on Sept. 17 at Churchill. When watching the replay myself I didn\'t notice any type of trouble, just seemed to regress. The backward move started around the start of the turn, so what was said about having trouble with turn and then began to run again once on the straight could be true.

I hope this discussion is appropriate for this forum if not just please remove. Have a question for the experts here, when I see this happen I wonder what conclusion I can draw from it. Looking at a race on the card for Kee Weds, 3yr old coming out of a race of 7f where he ran 23.04, 23.55, 26.53, 11.97. The horse did not have any trouble in that 3rd quarter but ran 26.53 and went from near lead to last, 15l back, only to finish up well then in 11.97 making up 6 1/4L in final 1/8. In general does this happen because the horse loses interest in racing or does he run slow enough that he was able to regain enough stamina to finish well. Could you draw anything from this race as to a predictor to his next.