Re: Matron & Atto Mile (696 Views)
Posted by:
Barry Irwin (IP Logged)
Date: September 18, 2005 10:18PM
I think the Atto is unbettable. It's hard for me to get negative on Leroy given that he's 8-10 on turf with 1 second against many solid Graded Stakes horses. I think the difference between him and some of the others is greater than the small edge in speed figures indicates. Plus, he's got the perfect style to get consistently easy trips. He should get another one from the rail. The only knock I can find is that that last field wasn't particularly good and he got a very easy trip on the lead. So he may not have been as sharp there as he was earlier in the year. Even that's a stretch though because you could argue that his last race was a prep for this and the BC.
Class, it is refreshing to read herein something about the "sport" of racing, as opposed to the "beating the favorite" drone.
Sure, everybody wants to be able to beat the favorite to cash a ticket, but somewhere along the line it is important to recognize the real reason this sport exists.
Okay, I am now going to put on the pith helmut I bought at a flea market yesterday in suburban Lexington, so go ahead and hurl on me.
Oh, yeah, I arranged a deal for Richard and Audrey Haisfield of Midway, Kentucky to acquire Leroy for stud, to stand alongside Medaglia d'Oro, which I bought for them last year. They have two viable stallion prospects for their new bluegrass farm.