Re: Preakness......rubber meets the road (484 Views)
Posted by:
P-Dub (IP Logged)
Date: May 11, 2007 02:33PM
magicnight Wrote:
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> I love how this argument will last forever.
Argument?? I responded to a question. Sorry if it brings back painful memories for you.
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> P-Dub, by "completely his own way" you mean ...
> what, exactly? 12 furlongs? How many lengths did
> SS lose by that day? Seem to remember a fella by
> the name of Whittingham saying something about EG
> "being the real mile-and-a-half horse".
His own way:
-He raced on his home track, a track that his main competition wasn't allowed to work over
-A racktrack unlike any other in the country. Wide, sweeping turns with an outside bias suited him perfectly. EG couldn't beat SS on equal footing. Not at Churchill, Pimlico, or Gulfstream (none of which were his home track).
Also, if you can find the quote where Whittingham actually said that...please post it.
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> Why do people always have to trash one or the
> other? I loved EG but that doesn't mean I have to
> disparage SS.
I didn't trash the horse. Unfortunately for him and his fans, he was second best to Sunday Silence...something that some people still have a hard time accepting.
P-Dub