Since his loss in the Goodwood as a 3yo, the Candy Ride colt Twirling Candy has done nothing wrong setting a track record in the Malibu and then following up in the Strub. The question is, can anyone beat him? Bob Baffert might just be the trainer to do so as he'll be sending out as many as 4 horses in this weekend's Santa Anita Handicap. While his newest charge First Dude (who should really be an Allowance company to try to confidence back up) will be getting most of the talk, I think Tweebster has the best chance of the four.
Yes he was well beaten in the Strub and lost by a nose in the San Fernando, but there is no trainer who has a hot barn like Baffert does. Also the Candy Ride's haven't really shown much love for the Big Cap distance of a mile and a quarter where as Tweebster's sire Tapit has a winner at the Classic distance. It's really an unknown how far Twirling Candy actually wants to go, yes his Strub win was impressive and showed that he wanted more distance of ground. However, in last year's Goodwood he failed to hit the board as the favorite. Niether horse has gone this far, so that's even up in the air of how they will handle the distance.
The likelyhood of Tweebster actually pulling this upset off? Doubtful, but that's the beauty of horse racing is that anything can happen.
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