This is a nice photo.

http://cgi.ebay.com/Criminal-Type-Sunday-Silence-Housebuster-Blood-Horse_W0QQitemZ8776909227QQcmdZViewItem#ebayphotohosting


Easy Goer missed twice by less than Sunday Silence lost to Criminal Type. A loss is a loss. The trick is determining the best horse.

Those colors are Calumet before Lundy decided Alydar was worth more dead than alive. Alydar was the anti Osama bin Laden. You see, to some, that one is worth more Alive than Dead.

That nimble turn thing never registered with me. Goer outnimbled SS in the Preakness and Pat Day put him in relax mode and allowed SS to come back. SS was a game horse no doubt about it. The post wire gallop out proved to me Pat Day had made a mistake.

Pat found traffic in the BC Classic and gave Goer a breather on a speed strip when he needed to hang close, they did get away a little from him on the last turn. I guess its all based upon that.



The Derby was not Goers track. Derby Goo was like Poly to him, it evened the vast ability gap.

Lance Wrote:
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> "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.