Re: Preakness......rubber meets the road (538 Views)
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streetbull (IP Logged)
Date: May 12, 2007 11:19PM
PDub wrote:
Classic: McCarron had EG measured the whole time. Again, they race 1 1/4 miles.....not 1 1/4 miles plus 5 jumps past the wire. Losers always like to point out the spot where the loser finally passes the winner.....funny how its always past the finish (winning) line.
Great point....
I always like to use past patterns to evaluate present races....This debate probrably stir up memories of the great battles between Affirmed and Alydar......I think that the consensus grew to a crescendo prior to the Belmont that Alydar was finally win that race... But Affirmed proved otherwise.....
I really thought that the connections of Easy Goer really blew their campaign or repeated the same mistakes that the connections of Turkoman committed prior the Breeder's Cup Classic....Their mistake???
If the 1 1/4 Classic was their objectives...Both ran their horses in a mile and half race prior to the Classic by running in the Jockey Gold Cup when the race was run at a mile and a half dulling the early speed for the classic race in the Breeders.....