“Hopefully, he’ll bounce back the way he did after the races in New York and Japan,” O’Neill said of the 5-year-old gelding. Lava Man had been seven for seven this year, but is now 0 for 4 in his career outside of California despite O’Neill’s efforts to resolve past troubles by shipping him to Kentucky to train three weeks before the race. O’Neill won his first Breeders’ Cup race with Stevie Wonderboy in last year’s Juvenile. ![]() Jaime of Alta Loma and Pablo Suarez of Valencia. O’Neill took the Sprint with Thor’s Echo, a 15-1 shot bred in California and owned by Royce S. I think it wasn’t his day,” said trainer Doug O’Neill, who earlier won his second Breeders’ Cup race in two years. “Basically he wasn’t the same Lava Man we’ve been fortunate enough to see.
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