What a long, hot, and almost grueling weekend of capping. Couldn’t have gotten much weirder with the heat cancellations on the East Coast and Monmouth’s disastrous Haskell Delay on Saturday. After all that, I scored out on playback Lostintranzlation in the final race of the weekend at Del Mar, a 14.40 winner that was never threatened gate to wire. That’s the way to win them.

A yeomanlike effort from Maximum Security on Saturday. He did what he was supposed to do in winning the Haskell, but didn’t look overly sharp in doing it. Seems like something may not be quite right with the big horse. (And man is he big. He looks like a steer.). Curious to see where he goes from here. My inclination is that he skips the Travers and goes to the Pennsylvania Derby. He may be the best 3 yo, or he maybe just peaked early than the rest of the crop – that remains to be seen.

This should be a good week or two to catch prices at the Spa – some of the big names have unloaded their barns for the beginning of the meet – keep an eye out for boutique barns and interesting shippers.

Also scored on a big trifecta early in the day at the Spa. Really feeling confident on where my ‘capping is at right now, and my book of playbacks has been more reliable than Charles Schwab.

Looking forward to the Jim Dandy next weekend – I expect War of Will to boatrace that field. Hopefully we get a showdown with WoW and Maximum Security before the year is out.

Here’s a little tune to cap this wild weekend: https://youtu.be/PQ5UlyBgHN8