NC Tony,

My last post in this string I said would be my last on the subject. I guess I lied. Also by all accounts from everyone I have heard about regarding you NC Tony. You are great guy, an expert handicapper, and clearly by your story about being there when Forego mowed em down, a real fan. So this is not an attack on you but just on some of the logic that Invasor was one of the all-time greats. And not that you were leading the charge.

I read Dave Litfins analysis/article in the Sat DRF and in discussing the Suburban he mentioned two horses who were previous winners: Mineshaft and Skip Away. I think I have a pretty good memory but a horse like Skip Away clearly slipped my mind and those calling Invasor great, well it slipped theirs also.

Skip away closed his four year old campaign with dominating wins in the Jockey Club Gold Cup and the BC Classic at Hollywood Park after the connections anti-ed-up and supplemented. Clearly a bold move. Skip Aways five year old season, please read below.

Donn Handicap-126.lbs-WIN
Gulf Park Handicap-127.lbs-WIN
Pimlico Special-128.lbs-WIN
Mass Handicap-130.lbs-WIN
Hollywood Gold Cup-124.lbs-WIN
Iselin Handicap-131.lbs-WIN
Woodward-126.lbs-WIN

Skip Aways ankle began going bad, he lost the last two, one at CD, a track he never really like anyway.

Skip Away did this over the same 12 month span that stretched the entire 12 month American racing career of Invasor. Skip Away competed in major races at two, ran in all three Triple Crown races at 3. Ran in the Travers and beat Cigar in the Jockey Club Gold Cup the same year.

His resume compared to those of horses such as Invasor and Bernardini is so lopsided that to even mention them in his class is a disgrace. The financial incentives today may be so great that to continue risk running horses is not worth the odds. Be that as it may, no one should be bringing down the achievements of GREAT HORSES who ran and competed before the currents ones.

Simply in an effort to send the current ones off to some highly publicized stud career..............