Re: This is What Man O'War Looked Liked (1161 Views)
Posted by:
FrankD. (IP Logged)
Date: March 26, 2017 01:02PM
Silver,
My good friend, you are one of the few true lovers of the game and have the utmost respect for it's traditions.
However:
I must vehemently disagree with your Secretariat comparison. Big Red started 9 times as a 2yr old, Arrogate will end his 4 yr old season with 9-10 lifetime starts. I am in no way diminishing yesterday's performance. It was breath taking, simply awesome and puts him firmly on the short list of great one's. His greatness so far is limited to a 4 race sample all of which were spectacular to say the least.
To simply discount a triple crown, smashing all 3 track records, a 2 time horse of the year, a Sports Illustrated athlete of the year, a couple of track records in his only 2 grass starts, a turf Eclipse award and without a doubt the single greatest equine performance ever witnessed in his Belmont Stakes running each 1/4 mile faster than the previous one (12 successive) a distance the Arrogate will never run is comparing apples and oranges!!!!
He did get beat 5 times in 21 dances at 9 different race tracks from 5.5 furlongs to a mile and 5/8, twice runnning 12 furlongs on dirt and 12 & 13 furlong events in his 2 grass races.
I realize we are in the instant gratification age of tweets & insta grams. Heck Miff is even on twitter and far more entertaining than the Pennsylvania Ave account 😎
I challenge anyone to go to you tube or google Secretariat and watch the Belmont replay if you don't get a tear in your eye watching that you're not a true lover of the sport. Yesterday was very impressive but I saw no one reaching for a tissue.
Frank D.