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It's the most highly anticipated Thursday afternoon allowance in recent memory, if you don't count the first time it was carded a week ago. Indygo Mountain has been heaped with praise since breaking his maiden at Churchill Downs last month. Here's an article about him from the Fort-Worth Star Telegram by the incomparable Gary West...
Indygo Mountain is a promising horse
And here's the win on YouTube...
Churchill Downs, 2008-11-19, Race 10
It is a nice win, to be sure, but Indygo Mountain is hardly the only big-time prospect in this race. Our choice, Friesan Fire, burned up the track in his most recent work, and he's the only graded-stakes-placed entrant in here. We're not claiming to know who is the better horse, but we are skeptical by nature and we're not eager to build a shrine to a maiden winner when there's another horse in the same race who also broke his maiden impressively, and also happens to be graded-stakes-placed.
That replay isn't the most convincing, as Friesan Fire just happens to be the one who grabs third in a tightly bunched group, which is usually a sign of an unexceptional field. Nonetheless, it was a Grade II, and still way more than whatever Indygo Mountain faced in the Nov. 19 finale at Churchill.
We will single Friesan Fire in Pick Threes, assuming that just as many if not more people will be heavily counting on Indygo Mountain.