Re: Lukas (417 Views)
Posted by:
Chuckles_the_Clown2 (IP Logged)
Date: February 09, 2005 12:15PM
fasteddie wrote:
> Chuckles:
>
> We'll have to agree to disagree; beating a horse tag-team style
> is not the same as beating
> him straight-up. I don't believe Fager & Damascus ever met at
> 1-1/2
Giving Fager the nod on "brilliance", I'd have to come down on Damascus at 10 marks and beyond.
As for Woody, he DID sacrifice Forty Niner because he
> let his emotions get the best of him; he couldn't stand Lukas!
>
Regarding the "he couldn't stand Lukas" part, you certainly can't hold that against Woody. The Wood Man believed you do your best to do right by your horse and you only bring a horse to Churchill Downs that is a legitimate horse. Thats the way horsemen are.
When Easy Goer was life and death to nose Awe Inspiring in the 1989 Derby, the reporters asked Shug if he had misjudged the ability of his "star". Shug told them, that he worked with the horses everyday and was able to evaluate them in a myriad number of ways. Finally he said that Easy Goer was many lengths faster than Awe Inspiring and Shug knew Goer had not run his race at Churchill Downs. He said Goer's dam was Relaxing and he said that "she wouldn't pick up a foot in the goo". Now, why do I digress about Easy Goer again?....Well, he's the best or second best horse I've ever seen and what would you think of Shug if he couldn't determine who was best in his barn and ran him for a tag?....Not once, but twice?
If a man really can't say which horse he's high on in his barn, what do you think that says about his big race training technique? Does it make you contemplate he's got something else he's relying upon other than his ability to evaluate his horses?
Woody didn't run his Triple Crown horses for a Tag either. Horsemen know their horses.
CtC
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