LosAl 1st

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Supreme Giant

Looks as though trainer SGonzalez has this one ready to run perhaps the best race of his life. Gonzalez must feel he can beat this field with this horse, as he scratched the . If I'm reading him right, he scratched the because the can handle this field. If he would have felt he couldn't win here, scratch instead and let run around the track, looking for another spot for in the immediate future.

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In the history of mankind, it is a daily experience that the best laid plans, of both mice and men, will, as often as not, come up a head short.

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Lets try another before we move from LosAl to Santa Anita.

5th race

Harrovian. There are a few horses stretching out here, so the pace may end up being a little faster than average, and if it were to get too hot, that would probably benefit Majestic Journey more than anybody else in the field. However, none of these stretching out give me a lot of confidence that they're ready to carry it all the way around two turns. Should get first crack at it, and corrections have been made since his last race. He wore blinkers his past 2 races, and he didn't seem totally comfortable with them on. He pulled pretty aggressively both races. The removal of the blinkers and the switch to TBaze I feel are winning changes. TBaze should be able to get him to relax without the headgear, and this horse showed he could be competitive at this trip against better company. He should be able to race 2nd flight behind any of the stretch out horses that let it rip early, and has a great chance to get first over in early stretch and have something left to fend off an late chargers.

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$8.40. Horse was 9/2 at one time, but we all know how that goes. Might have been 4/1 entering the gate, but can't be certain of that. Not surprised at the price as he was definitely one of the ones.