Silver Charm Wrote:
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> >- my only real peave is : zito's comments on
> the spacing and schedualing of tc >race's
> should have been complete with the revelation ( by
> someone on the >broadcast ) that he dosn't want
> to see change.......
>
> Please elaborate. I missed this some of this part
> as I was jumping around. I did hear them say that
> the TC schedule was fine and with so many coming
> close it proves so much so. Then after the race
> was over the I hear Terry Gannon (Terry
> Gannon???????-were there no ex-Knicks or Lakers
> available) say that five out of the last seven
> winners of the Belmont did not run in the
> Preakness.
>
> Which proves the spacing is flawed when if you
> want to win the biggest Three Year Old race in NY
> you need to skipped some leg of the Triple Crown

Jazil
Afleet Alex
Birdstone
Empire Maker
Sarava
Point Given
Commendable

Those are the Belmont Stakes winners from the last 7 years. Two that ran in all three events were very close to Triple Crown Winners. Afleet Alex and Point Given. Both were Champion 3YO's thanx to Lost in the Fog being revealed as a faker.

Empire Faker ran once more, was beaten and retired gimpy.
Sarava never ran again to my knowledge and if he did he was gimpy.
Commendable never won again and was retired by the Breeders Cup.

Are folks really going to argue that the horses using the multiple week spacing ambush technique in the Belmont during the last 7 years are really being managed better than those that run in all three triple crown events and are sounder with more bottom to go on with their careers?

None of these horses went on to run at four, though a couple probably could have. You guessed it, the two that ran in all three.

Can we stop this blatant nonsense. The Triple Crown does not need spacing because a gimpy Barbaro wasn't put together well enough to handle the rigors. With as weak as this crop is revealing itself to be Barbaro might have won the Triple Crown, had he been a well bred horse like Point Given or Afleet Alex or several others that have nearly won the Triple Crown in the last 9 years.

sheez