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Preakness
Apparently that last race was Uncle Lino's first as a gelding so he raced with the ultimate equipment change. No question a game effort. So will he improve off that race? Whose to say! Previously, he was beaten handily in his confrontations with Exaggerator and Nyquist. Exaggerator just smoked him in the Santa Anita Derby in the slop.
Los Alamitos is a newly extended mile track. Previously it had undergone an extension from 1/2 mile to 6f. The food is great in the Turf Club. Before the closing of Hollywood this was primarily a Quarterhorse track. Since they sold the property to the North to make a golf course the only way they could lengthen it was to lengthen the backstretch by ballooning it outward. Very weird. Times don't transfer well to other mile ovals. I believe he is in deep water. The horse he beat had never placed in a graded stake and was entered from a couple OC80k races. The fractions were ordinary.
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