Jerry,

Lionheart retired. I know you know that. If you are going to insult me or question my handicapping, move to a different horse or example.

But to be honest, Lionheart is a perfect example of WHY I bother to post threads on this board about some of your picks. I don't send emails to Andy Beyers or the Washington Post when he invariabley blows the Derby every year. I don't email the DRF when Crist and Pochman and Watchmaker make bad picks. Who knows if they are better or worse handicappers than you, I honestly don't. But I do know one difference, I have seen 3 of those 4 (don't know Pochman) be self deprecating and humble when one of their horses runs horribly. I have heard them say "I was wrong". I have heard them entertain other opinions besides their own. Your level of arrogance and superiority drives me nuts(I admit we all have different levels of tolerance of this). There are times, when you and your figures will be "right on" and there are times when they will be wrong. WHen was the last time you said "I was wrong". Ever?

Just look at Lionheart. You write in your post ridiculing me that I could even entertain the thought that Lionheart was not a true 1 1/4 mile horse. You use that as a symbol of my inability to understand your figures and thinking. As if I thought the world was flat.

Before the Travers when he broke down, if you got the 100 sharpest and shrewdest handicappers together and asked them if they thought Lionheart was a 1 1/4 horse, what do you think they would have said? Best case for you is a mixed result. My guess is about 2/3 would say no chance against good competition at that distance. But that is not even the point. It is a VALID question and a VALID opinion. Not something that you as the all-knowing superior intellect can dismiss as a stupid question or opinion.