Re: Matron & Atto Mile (602 Views)
Posted by:
Chuckles_the_Clown2 (IP Logged)
Date: September 19, 2005 11:09AM
Barry,
The tenor of your post is a race thats about to occur. That the race is "imminent". I noticed the time of your Post was 10:18 PM Sunday. Its considered bad form to Past Post here Barry.
I'd offer one other insight in the event a technical glitch allowed your post to drop to the board post race or post virus check or you got busy trying to buy a prospective stakes winner before you eventually sent it. I'd be very very leery of buying Frankel horses for stud. Frankel horses are not running on their own innate ability. Just ask his vet. A portfolio of Frankel stud horses is certainly a bigger gamble than a flyer to bet Leroid.
Irwin Wrote:
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> > 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.