Re: This and That and Little Current (532 Views)
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P-Dub (IP Logged)
Date: June 12, 2005 08:23PM
"If you want to say Sunday Silence bested Easy Goer, its true. But Easy Goer was a much better horse by all measures except Mud, a horrible ride by Patient Pat and Fate. Sunday Silence never had a prayer at the Triple and was dog meat to get 10 marks on a fair track."........CTC
By all measures?? I know you East Coast guys love Easy Goer and it kills you to admit it, but in the measureable known as head to head competition Easy Goer was 1 for 4 and Sunday Silence was 3 for 4. You can blame Day forever but the fact is Easy Goer had the entire length of the stretch to get by SS and couldn't do it. To mention the word dog meat and Sunday Silence in the same sentence lowers your credibility even further. I guess Gulfstream and the Fair Grounds weren't fair either?? Is Belmont the only "fair" track there is?? Sounds to me that for all the "greatness" of EG, you can sure find a lot of excuses for his losses against SS. The only time he beat him was on his home track. Wouldn't a truly "great" horse overcome these things and still win?? Personal Ensign wasn't a mud lover but she found a way to run down Winning Colors. I'm not saying SS was the greatest 3yo of the past 20 yrs, but to put EG ahead of him on your mythical list is prejudicial and downright ridiculous. You're entitiled to your opinion, but I don't know what criteria you use to determine these things. BTW, I didn't get the fate loss. Please explain.