Re: Whitney/Dandy Figs (514 Views)
Posted by:
derby1592 (IP Logged)
Date: August 12, 2004 09:13PM
I would say 1989 with Sunday Silence and Easy Goer would have to be considered a pretty good crop given that they finished 1/2 in the BC classic that year.
I think we tend to underrate the crops each year and it gets worse every year because, as someone noted earlier, we have a lot more horses cranked up to run big numbers as 2yos and early 3 and those precocious types seldom improve or even last until the fall or as 4yos.
If you don't get them cranked up early, you have almost no chance to win stakes. The best example is Zito. He used to have stakes winners at 2 and early 3 using "traditional" training methods. In the last 5 years, he was getting his clock cleaned in such races. Last summer he openly stated he was going to start really cranking them up at 2 and early 3 and sure enough he was back in the limelight.
The game has changed for better or worse as does everything else...
Chris