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Re: No repect for Came Home (1257 Views)
Posted by: Treadhead (IP Logged)
Date: April 28, 2002 01:51AM

Mark, why do you place so much stock in the sire's ability to get distance? The dam's side is equally important, and in my estimation, more important. I think you are making a mistake here, but who am I to try to talk you out of it.

I understand a little better what you mean about "good" horse now, but what you really mean is durable. I am currently investigating a theory I started after reading the article in bloodhorse about how only one of the winners who raced over the hard derby-day surface last year have come back to win a race.

I then thought of some comments I heard from an owner I met who said that Gulfstream Park is very hard on horses. That got me to thinking, how many horses who spent a winter in Gulfstream, had an effort down there, and either had poor showings and never really did anything again by derby time, or in the case of last year, were done right after the derby. Let's look at a recent list...

Monarchos
Invisible Ink (actually attempting a comeback)
Songandaprayer
ThunderBlitz
TalkIsMoney
Hals Hope (an expetion)
Wheelaway
Trippi (went back to sprinting and did OK)
HighYield
Cat Thief (an exception)
Vicar
Wondertross
Stephen Got Even
Adonis
Halory Hunter
Lils Lad

Anyone see where I'm going with this? Obviously, you can't draw a firm conclusion from this, but if I had a star 3 year-old preping for the derby, i would be avoiding GP like the plague.



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No repect for Came Home (2058 Views) Mark O'Keeffe 04/27/2002 01:58PM
Re: No repect for Came Home (1231 Views) kevin s 04/27/2002 02:30PM
Re: No repect for Came Home (1232 Views) Mark O'Keeffe 04/27/2002 02:57PM
Re: No repect for Came Home (1254 Views) Michael D. 04/27/2002 03:00PM
Re: No repect for Came Home (1353 Views) derby1592 04/27/2002 04:29PM
Re: No repect for Came Home (1265 Views) Mark O'Keeffe 04/27/2002 07:09PM
Re: No repect for Came Home (1247 Views) derby1592 04/27/2002 07:15PM
Re: No repect for Came Home (1373 Views) Mark O'Keeffe 04/27/2002 07:29PM
Re: No repect for Came Home (1310 Views) derby1592 04/27/2002 07:45PM
Re: No repect for Came Home (1350 Views) Mark O'Keeffe 04/27/2002 08:30PM
Re: No repect for Came Home (1253 Views) derby1592 04/27/2002 09:31PM
Re: No repect for Came Home (1378 Views) Mark O'Keeffe 04/27/2002 10:01PM
Re: No repect for Came Home (1221 Views) nunzio 04/27/2002 10:19PM
Re: No repect for Came Home (1257 Views) Treadhead 04/28/2002 01:51AM
Re: No repect for Came Home (1252 Views) Mark O'Keeffe 04/28/2002 02:12AM
Re: No repect for Came Home (1333 Views) Excitable Boy 04/28/2002 03:07AM
Re: No repect for Came Home (1228 Views) Mark O'Keeffe 04/28/2002 10:53AM
Re: No repect for Came Home (1305 Views) fastspeed 04/28/2002 02:45PM
Re: No repect for Came Home (1210 Views) Treadhead 04/28/2002 04:12PM
Re: No repect for Came Home (1257 Views) Mark O'Keeffe 04/29/2002 03:14AM
Breeding (1241 Views) Excitable Boy 04/27/2002 11:59PM
Re: Breeding (1232 Views) Mark O'Keeffe 04/28/2002 01:21AM
Re: No repect for Came Home (1269 Views) Treadhead 04/27/2002 07:36PM
Re: No repect for Came Home (1326 Views) Mark O'Keeffe 04/27/2002 08:27PM
Re: No repect for Came Home (1240 Views) David Manley 04/27/2002 09:27PM
Re: No repect for Came Home (1242 Views) nunzio 04/27/2002 09:40PM
Re: No repect for Came Home (1324 Views) Mark O'Keeffe 04/27/2002 09:53PM


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