Re: Where's the outrage??? (class) (949 Views)
Posted by:
Furious Pete (IP Logged)
Date: June 23, 2017 09:48PM
I don't mind your contributions on here BBB, was just curious as to which figure makers if any you were thinking about when writing "Yet have issue with the further a horse runs the less weight matters as some performance makers suggest". The standard view is certainly the opposite.
As to the whole "class"-debate I don't really get the controversy, but it could be that I'm too young to really know what some oldtimers would mean with that word.
In my world there's certainly a degree of "class" involved when a horse fire every time (i.e run big numbers every time), I don't see why figures and "class" should be in opposition? For me there's also a degree of "class differences" involved when a horse that has the numbers to compete fails to repeat those numbers facing tougher competition, it seems to be the case often enough for it to be a "thing". I guess pace is a factor in that. Other dynamics? "Boys against Men?".
And I don't quite see why it would be wrong to say that a horse like Songbird, Zenyatta, Black Caviar or Tepin for that matter, "has/had class". You ask them to do something difficult and they just do it. That's class.
I've made figures for 10 years and is very much a figure guy myself, but that doesn't stop me from appreciating that there are intangible elements of horse racing, too.