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[SoCalMan2]

Could the Palos Verdes over this weekend at Santa Anita be another example?  With Distinction and Atilla\'s Storm appear to be better horses earning the best figures outside of California (only negative figures in the race) and then losing to two California horses who ran inferior figures in California (the Jet West and Major Success).  Again, I could be wrong here, but just highlighting another example for discussion. I suspect that the Sunshine Millions will give us a lot of examples to look at as well.

[miff]

So Cal,

The Breeders Cup results and Borrego\'s Cal figs are already being watched by Jerry with a view of \"confirming\" TG Cal figs. There has been no update to my knowledge.

[bobphilo]

You can\'t really go by With Distinction since he just went horibly off form in the Palos Verdes. I wasn\'t so much surprised by Major Success\'s win over Attila\'s Storm, but by the fact that he did it going 3 wide while AS got the rail trip. I didn\'t see the rest of the days races - did anyone detect a possible dead rail bias?

Bob

[TGJB]

First of all, Attila\'s Storm broke a leg in the race. Second of all, there already have been several examples of shippers in to California running big-- the $48 horse in the grass sprint in the contest was the fastest horse, based on numbers from LRL, etc., and the $%*# Biancone horse last week that lost the photo at 14-1 in the race before Unbridled Energy won was another. That one cost me a VERY big pick 3. And keep in mind, these were horses that had shipped from cold to warm, and didn\'t have to run the first time.

Yes, the Millions will probably be a good test, as long as the horses have been stabled in warm weather. This discussion came up last year, and if you do a search you can see how the horses (especially Hot Storm) ran in last year\'s edition.

[bobphilo]

That answers my question of why Attila\'s Storm got beat. With With Distinction going off form, that left Major Success and Jet West as the top 2 and that\'s how they finished. Looks like the figures held up for the horses that didn\'t get hurt.

Bob