I’m really bucking the trend on this one, but with a race boasting as much talent as the 2009 Pacific Classic at Delmar, I think the top runners are going to cancel each other out and we’re going to see a career-defining victory by Swaps Stakes winner Misremembered.
A massive field of 12 confirmed, and some very compact odds once you get outside of the top three, make me convinced that this year’s edition of the Classic is much more wide open than a race boasting the likes of Einstein and Colonel John really should be. If either of these two were running against a field of 8 or less, I’d say get in there and back them all the way but this time around, I think we’re going to see the younger colt get one over on the big boys.
Misremembered’s only real loss this season came as a solid second place in the Affirmed Handicap and (I’ve embeded the video below) you’ll see he ran an absolute hell of a race. Grazen oozes quality and Misremembered truly made the most of a tough rail assignment there. If he wasn’t bottled up so early, he would have gotten into his preferred stalking position and been in a better position to push. I also think he was sent up too early. At about the one minute margin on the video, watch the move that Misremembered pulls off- this is the move that’s going to win him the Pacific Classic.
He then went on to absolutely demolish the Swaps Stakes- his first major stakes victory and it put him on three wins out of four. He’s going into this race lighter than the others at 118 and he is also the only three year-old. This is a horse in its acendancy and I have enough faith in the intelligence of Bob Baffert to send this colt into races that he’s going to win. You would not put your horse into a race against this type of competition without figuring you were in with a shout. Watch Misremembered absolutely pound the Swaps Stakes right here. Oh yeah, and he gets revenge on Grazen too.
This is the type of race we’re all about here at Gate2Wire. These are the type of horses we like to back.
I’ll be using Misremembered at the top end of several exotics that include Informed, Einstein and Colonel John. I think your superfecta is either that or Rail Trip in there somewhere towards the back.
