Re: Preakness......rubber meets the road (527 Views)
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Lance (IP Logged)
Date: May 13, 2007 12:01AM
"Coincidentally that horse was sired by Alydar too and familarity with that part of the game is another tool where I separate myself from the crowd. To them and guys like you its all a guess. Tough work guessing isnt it?"
For what it's worth, Sunday Silence was giving Criminal Type four pounds when the latter beat him by all of six inches in what was to be SS's final career start. Criminal Type went on to win the Eclipse Award for Horse of the Year.
Easy Goer was a wonderful, wonderful horse, but Sunday Silence had his number on three of four occasions for one very simple reason in my opinion: he was more athletic and thus better on the turns, leaving Easy Goer with too much to do in the lane. The one time EG beat him, it was on a course with wide, sweeping turns -- turns that negated SS's athletic advantage.
Just my take. Cheers.