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You asked for it, and you got it!

Lava Man retired, again!

Doug O'Neill actually pulled the plug on Lava Man's return this time, for good!

You felt he [O'Neill] wasn't comfortable. He kept sending the horse through scans and Vet exams as if he was trying to prove a point. He scratched on an off-cushion track in December, and then ran him on the grass in the San Gabriel as, the grass was in safe mode.

The truth behind the whole story it was the work of one of the connections, not the whole conglomeration.

One owner, one person that basically told O'Neill 'It's either you train him for a comeback or it's...." (another trainer name, who shall remain nameless). You could almost fill in the blank with a few names.

Yes, one person, a living breathing egotistical maniac, that needed to fulfill his jollies of having the big boy back. I guess the money in the bank, the experience and marvelous memories Lava Man gave, gave and gave some more just weren't enough.

If it's called an STD, and checks out like a STD, then it is an STD. A disease that takes hold of many in the horse racing business. They become bigger than the game, bigger than the horses. It's them that won over $5 mil, not the horse, nor the trainer, nor the jockey.

The Lava Man Syndrome was a social disease, spread by one person who brought back a horse off a year plus layoff into a Grade race at 9 furlongs on the grass, and then wondered why he got tired and faded. Even a horse at a ripe age, let's say like Zenyatta, Gio Ponti, or Rachel Alexandra would be vulnerable at that distance and on a surface that he or she had marginal success. (Lava Man was a dirt and synthetic horse).

O'Neill was grand through the whole thing but you could tell had a bad taste in his mouth. Jason Wood, another Lava Man owner, worried himself sick every time the horse hit the track in the morning. the inner workings of one man turned racing fans into a ball of nerves when that horse hit the track at Santa Anita in late December.

I wish we had more Doug O'Neill's in the trainer ranks and in the industry, or a Jason Wood as an owner, racing fan and much less of STD!

O'Neill and Wood did the right thing.....and that is take the horse and give him a pasture, field, and grass to eat. A retirement fitting a horse that changed the lives of all involved.

The other guy, the STD, well, he will be looking for another horse he can exorcise his insanity on. Trust me and the list is already long and growing!

This is just my opinion, my thoughts, but I am thoroughly elated that we did not have to witness tragedy on the track, once again! We have had enough of that!

I think I am going to have a cold beer!

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