number5858: For me aluminum pads are as bad a bar shoes and an instant toss. Bound to cause traction problems. Low level claimers can get away with it sometime when pretty much all the horses have soundness problems, but not in top notch stakes races.

Lost Cause: reboundman Wrote:
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> Don\'t think Birdrun is going to wire the field
> with Alma D\'oro entered.


Thought process is if they go out there and crawl 26, 51,  That would leave Dross and crew to catch fresh horses up front..