Movement 4th in Comebacker

Movement ran a credible fourth [chart - pdf warning] Thursday against solid company. Billy Mac's Forestry filly just nosed us out of third pace money, which cost me $900. This is a game of inches.

She broke sharply, then settled. In fact, she settled so much, I though she just wasn't going to pick up her feet, that she was horrible outclassed, or completely off her game. Then she came with quite a bit in the lane to make up a lot of ground. My initial reaction was that our jockey, Pedro Flores, waited too long to press the button. After watching the replay, he did get after her at the top of the stretch and rode hard through the lane. Perhaps he should have kept her slightly closer to the pace, but upon watching the race several times now, it was not the offensive ride I initially thought.

Initial reports are that she came out of the race great. The folks at the barn said she was not tired and scarcely drank any water. She was coming like a house afire at the wire, and was difficult to pull up. If the race really didn't take much out of her we might run her back sooner than we have in the past. We might even see her at Stockton.

Given the way she ran many folks at the paddock bar suggusted she may want to go long. And, she might, but she might be just as apt as a sprinter. She did everything the jock asked of her from taking back to changing leads to changing lanes in traffic to having a pretty strong answer when he finally asked the question. These are the trappings of a professional racehorse.