Re: Five Weeks Rest (422 Views)
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HP (IP Logged)
Date: April 04, 2005 10:58AM
Five weeks rest is no good. Nobody's ever gotten anywhere with it. I'd be happy to have High Fly in the futures at 30-1, but on Derby day at 4-1 or so....I doubt I'll take it.
Moving right along...
Class wrote -- "High Fly was chasing much faster fractions and set what appears to be a fairly quick pace himself even though he was off it. Vicarage and Mighty Mecke, who were also fairly close to that pace while wide, dropped back pretty badly. It is possible that both HF and BBB ran even better than it looks on paper."
The first sentence really says it all. Set "what appears" to be a fairly quick pace? Was is quick or not? "Even though he was off it?" Right, I mean how could he "set what appeared to be a fairly quick pace" if he wasn't on the lead (which he wasn't)? WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT? And what does "fairly quick" mean? How fast is that? Greater minds will have to figure out what this means. I just have no idea what you're talking about.
Absolute gibberish. "Appears to be." "Fairly close." "It is possible..." You say NOTHING and you still have to qualify every single sentence. I CHALLENGE you to write a clear sentence in English. I mean ONE clear sentence! If anything could destroy my appreciation for horse racing it's reading your posts. Give it a rest for God's sake!
I saw the race. It looked like High Fly won. It looked about the same "on paper" when I read about it on Sunday.
HP