Along The Rails

D. Wayne Lukas hath issued his pronouncement on his choice for Horse of the Year, and it’s Curlin.

He had an explanation for the four year old’s first non win, place, or show finish of his entire raing life.  That took place last year at Santa Anita in the Breeders’ Cup, and Lukas is blaming the synthetic turf, which he characterized in USA Today as “a nightmare.”  Oh, and it will also cure gambling addicts as well as, I don’t know, create a disturbance in the Force:

“The synthetic track’s a nightmare. You know that hot line that they have … if you’ve got a gambling problem, you call it? Well, synthetics will take care of that. You can disband that line now. They’ll cure the gamblers… And it’s not doing what it’s supposed to do. The injuries are just changing a little bit. You get different kinds of injuries. … It is not the cure-all on the injuries thing. We’re always going to have that a little bit.”

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