It was a great field. The only horses that would have had a 10-1 chance that were missing were Kj Desparado and Instygator. But A Pollitical Candy V came out of Ruidoso the clear top 3 year old there over Kj, and until winning the Refrigerator Instygator had been comprehensively between by Danjer in the Remington Championship and by Powerful Favorite in the All American Gold Cup. Both Instygator and Kj Desperado could have had a claim to divisional honors if Instygator wins the gr1 Leo having beaten Empressum in the Championship at Sunland the first days of the year. But he didnt and there is no question who champion aged gelding, aged runner, and world champion is Empressum had run 2 of the fastest 400 yard times in the Vessels Maturity and Go Man Go, at the time the time the two fastest since the Dr Allred cleaned the sport up in 2014. In the Boniface Los Al Championship APence had the post and ran his career tops race. His time of 21.22 put him with Heza Dasha Fire's 2015 Champion of Champions. He couldnt run better than that. Meanwhile, Empressum, as he can do, left the gates a bit tardy and was faced with making up almost 2 lengths on Pence from the inside. Yet, he closed it to 3/4ths a length. The performance left alot of room for improvement and physically it looked like the time off from that race allowed him to gain some flesh and look stronger. The post sealed it. And in a race so hyper, we didnt see the thrilling finish some might have wanted, but we witnessed an historic level performance. 20.089 these days at Los Al is almost unthinkable. No wind either. The time is the 4th fastest winning time in the race's 50 year history Only the times of the looser regulation era were faster. Jess You and I 20.94 in 2008, Freaky in 21.06 in 2010, and Apollitical Jess with the still standing record timen of 2011 in 20.93 have been faster. For comparison, when APence won his last CoC, his times were 21.35 and 21.44. That averages to abour 21.39. What does he run last night? 21.39. Empressum also showed that his faster time last year in the Texas Classic Derby compared to Danjer's Refrigerator time, in races run consecutively and the same wind was revealing. Danjer ran fantastic this past Saturday. A winner of 9 open grade 1s is beyond redoubt. But at their very best Empressum is just better. He will be world champion of 2022 and at this time last year I had him over Danjer for WC given he went 9 for 10, won 4 Derbys/ graded stakes, 3 gr1s, And that's not to disparage Danjer, who proved without any doubt, he is a great horse at any track.
Congratulations to Heath Taylor and the Connections ! Well Deserved !
CONGRATULATIONS TAYLOR TEAM! WELL DESERVED ! 🐎
Was there!!! Great job!!!
It was a great field. The only horses that would have had a 10-1 chance that were missing were Kj Desparado and Instygator. But A Pollitical Candy V came out of Ruidoso the clear top 3 year old there over Kj, and until winning the Refrigerator Instygator had been comprehensively between by Danjer in the Remington Championship and by Powerful Favorite in the All American Gold Cup.
Both Instygator and Kj Desperado could have had a claim to divisional honors if Instygator wins the gr1 Leo having beaten Empressum in the Championship at Sunland the first days of the year. But he didnt and there is no question who champion aged gelding, aged runner, and world champion is
Empressum had run 2 of the fastest 400 yard times in the Vessels Maturity and Go Man Go, at the time the time the two fastest since the Dr Allred cleaned the sport up in 2014. In the Boniface Los Al Championship APence had the post and ran his career tops race. His time of 21.22 put him with Heza Dasha Fire's 2015 Champion of Champions. He couldnt run better than that. Meanwhile, Empressum, as he can do, left the gates a bit tardy and was faced with making up almost 2 lengths on Pence from the inside. Yet, he closed it to 3/4ths a length. The performance left alot of room for improvement and physically it looked like the time off from that race allowed him to gain some flesh and look stronger. The post sealed it.
And in a race so hyper, we didnt see the thrilling finish some might have wanted, but we witnessed an historic level performance. 20.089 these days at Los Al is almost unthinkable. No wind either.
The time is the 4th fastest winning time in the race's 50 year history
Only the times of the looser regulation era were faster. Jess You and I 20.94 in 2008, Freaky in 21.06 in 2010, and Apollitical Jess with the still standing record timen of 2011 in 20.93 have been faster.
For comparison, when APence won his last CoC, his times were 21.35 and 21.44. That averages to abour 21.39. What does he run last night? 21.39.
Empressum also showed that his faster time last year in the Texas Classic Derby compared to Danjer's Refrigerator time, in races run consecutively and the same wind was revealing. Danjer ran fantastic this past Saturday. A winner of 9 open grade 1s is beyond redoubt. But at their very best Empressum is just better. He will be world champion of 2022 and at this time last year I had him over Danjer for WC given he went 9 for 10, won 4 Derbys/ graded stakes, 3 gr1s, And that's not to disparage Danjer, who proved without any doubt, he is a great horse at any track.
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Thanks for your interviews! Go Taylor Team!
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