Lazarus to the USA

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$430,000 Breeders Crown Open Pace

PP-Horse-Driver-Trainer-ML
1-Filibuster Hanover-Matt Kakaley-Ron Burke-4/1
2-Lazarus N-Yannick Gingras-Jimmy Takter-3/1
3-McWicked-Brian Sears-Casie Coleman-5/2
4-Western Fame-Brett Miller-Jimmy Takter-6/1
5-Rockin Ron-Chris Page-Ron Burke-12/1
6-Donttellmeagain-Tim Tetrick-Jim King Jr.-9/2
7-All Bets Off-Matt Kakaley-Ron Burke-10/1
8-Dealt A Winner-David Miller-Mark Silva-15/1

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Filibuster Hanover.. inneresting

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McWicked outstanding, all credit to the connections, something obviously amiss with Lazarus, a disappointing likely end to his US campaign

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Luke's report

https://www.thetrots.com.au/news/art...in-the-states/

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Any news on Lazarus yet ? I hope they don't retire him after that run, he deserves better.

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Michael Guerin
@GuerinSports
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Oct 29
No excuses, just disappointment for his horse from Jimmy Takter after Lazarus dropped out in Breeders Crown: “Poor guy, he must really have had a bug attacking him. He was beaten at the three-quarter pole.”
Plans for the great horse decided over next two weeks, stud most likely

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Jimmy Takter is retiring at the end of the year so for Laz to race on next season in the US the connections would also need to decide on a new trainer. McWicked’s future also undecided, Cassie Coleman would like him to race on but owner apparently favours stud career.

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What I find so insane is the fact that they haven't let him recover. He was sick when he got there and it's like they are just so money hungry they won't just let him have a full 2 weeks off to get 100%. He's been on antibiotics and yet they're racing him. You couldn't pay me for that trainer to have one of mine - that kind of behaviour destroys horses (though I have none to give anyway haha)

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Reports that he had blood and mucus in his lungs after race. Really does seem strange that they even let him race.

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Sadly it seems Danno was very much right when he wrote at the beginning of the thread that Laz had been reduced to a commercial asset. The plan for Lazarus was certainly ambitious with much that could and did go wrong, and the timing was not in his favour. It looks that downunder punters can be thankful that their interests are much better looked after by stewards here then they are by the “judges” in North America.

Lazarus’s connections must have been hoping for a miracle in the breeders crown, the SAA test used to determine Laz was ill before Yonkers is a very sensitive biomarker is for inflammation as the result of infection and is easily administered and accurate in real time. Continue to use this test and connections could not possibly have not known that Laz was still effected by illness when he lined up in the breeders crown.

Sadly it certainly seems the “commercial” and “its the business” attitude prevalent in NA was applied to Lazarus starting in the Breeders crown but without that miracle it’s hard to know what connections expected to achieve. Nothing Laz did in the US should make us look at him in a lesser light for it is apparent that he was let down badly by his connections. Although it was not a winning effort we should be in awe of the mile, with so many people downunder still claiming he is not a miler, Laz paced at the Red Mile and list it with his greatest achievements downunder.