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07-12-2006 06:32 PM |
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Originally Posted by Cunningham Racing
OOOHHHHHH!!, I get why you're so bitter about new stallions now.....I should have seen this agenda from a million miles away.....know wonder you hate new stallions..BUT, to say they are not important is flat wrong.....savvy horse players will argue that they are because I know...I play pedigrees all the time...that is why they are ofered in the Form as a stat and that is why you here analysts on TVG, etc...talking about horses and mentioning there family ALL THE TIME when handicapping races......now I see you r angle....you are bitter about horses retiring early and that is why you despise them when they go to stud....I see clearly now
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I dont hate new stallions. I hate the practice of taking horses off the track and depriving horse racing fans the pleasure of watching them RUN. And that, overall, is the bottom line; RUNNING. Not some archane dosage detail that is based upon very spurious data that is supposed to predict ability on a specific type of track. Honest to God, I hear and read people declaring that a horse should do really well on this yielding turf because his mother won a Grade I race on the turf in just these identical yeilding conditions. Its like saying I should be able to run in extreme heat because my mom once chased down and caught a pig on the farm while running 100 meters in the middle of the summer.
I would rather know how the horse that is actually running the race has done on yielding turf. I dont want to hear about his second cousin.
Now if someone had actually looked at a horse's hoof for instance, and noticed said horse possessed an exceptionally wide hoof and the horse ran well in conditions in which an exceptionally wide hoof is a distinct advantage (Im not sure what this would be) and that one particular offspring from this horse had an exceptionally wide hoof and was indeed fast... then I might take notice when the offspring ran under conditions where an exceptionally wide hoof was an advantage. BUT... I still would rather have SEEN that the offspring had already demonstrated the aforementioned ability ON THE TRACK.
I dont see what is so difficult to understand about the above. And all I am saying is if one really understands genetics and the randomness involved, then one is humbled when faced with the daunting task of trying to predict offspring success on the track without having even watch them run.
I also understand "breed the best, with the best, and hope for the best". I just put a lot of emphasis on the word, HOPE.
Keep em on the track and running.
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