About a month ago on this blog I wrote about putting Sweet Swap on our Horse Watch list. I had been impressed with his final time running down the hill at Santa Anita in Race 6 on September 28, especially as it compared with the final times in a couple of Stakes over the same course. I later tempered my enthusiasm in a comment to that entry, where I noted (among other races) that Circa'sgoldengear, a five year old gelding who has never competed in, let alone won, a stakes race, posted his fourth win in fifteen career starts by smoking the downhill grass with a final time that was a over a fifth of a second quicker than that run by Sweet Swap.
Thursday, Sweet Swap ran his first race since that September 28 effort. Moving up the class ladder into a non-winners of two other than AOC, Sweet Swap significantly improved upon his final time from September, running the six and a half furlongs of the downhill California grass in under seventy-two seconds. Unfortunately for Sweet Swap's backers (of which there were many, as he left the gate as the Post Time Favorite at final odds of 1.3-1) that time was only good enough to capture the Show, as Clubhouse Ride (6.7-1) hit the wire a half length ahead of him, with Truest Legend (11.6-1) taking the Place between those two. So a nice effort by Sweet Swap, but certainly not the result that his bettors were hoping for.
For those interested, the Equibase chart of the race is available here, while the DRF version of events may be viewed here.
Peace and Love,
Jimbo
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