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Watchmaker: Big Brown a long way from Big Red
http://www.drf.com/drfNewsArticle.do?NID=95125
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It is like writing that Eli Manning isn't as good as Joe montana....no kidding.
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Take Secretariat's first 6 races and compare them to Big Brown's first six and then do comparsions. I am no lover of Big Brown but the jury is still out. Time will tell if permitted?
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Key To The Mint was probably toast well before the race. He hadn't started in a couple of months and failed to establish his customary stalking position winding up last by many. He started 12 days later on turf and got trounced and was never heard from again. To say he was in good form at the time would have been dubious. Kennedy Road and Riva Ridge dueled through ridiculous fractions and probably burned each other up. Cougar, a 7yo making his 48th career start off a brief layoff, was arguably a better grass horse than he was on the main track. In addition, flanking this race was Secretariat's two monumental defeats in the Whitney and Woodward. To present it as though his Marlboro Cup was the definitive moment in Secretariat's career that somehow validated his greatness above all other Thoroughbred's is as ridiculous as having After Market at the top of your Turf Division leader board for 2008, even though he was retired in 2007... |
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I'm sick of people comparing every "now horse" to Secretariat.
It's like Liam Gallagher said when asked if Be Here Now was better than Definitely Maybe: "F**k Definitely Maybe. It's over." Personally, I think Be Here Now is Oasis' best album. And the readers of Rolling Stone named it Album of the Year in 1997. Although Noel Gallagher thinks it's garbage. |
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Isn't Frank Lyons employed somehow by IEAH ? |
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Possible but completely unlikely.. Seriously the horse has been pretty darn impressive. Granted he has beat swill. It is possible like it or not it's possible. I really hope the horse runs in the Travers Gold Cup and Classic and gets challenged by Curlin. I am know huge Curlin guy but apparently he is the only current threat |
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Wouldn't it be more like comparing Oasis's "Definitely Maybe" to the Beatles's "White Album"? Quote:
I say Ian Brown. He knows karate and can speak Spanish (which given the nationality of most backstretch grooms, might be soothing to an angry horse)... |
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if Secretariat ran his belmont in today's game he wouldn't have set the record. He would be well held until the turn and win by 10 or 15.
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It doesn't hold a candle to The Boatmen's Call by Nick Cave...
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--Dunbar |
At this stage of the Triple Crown, Big Brown has won twice in very impressive fashion. At this stage of the Triple Crown in 1973, Secretariat had set two stakes records (Pimlico disputed), and he was about to run the race by which all others are measured.
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LOL @ Dew using an Oasis album as a parallel for one of the greatest thoroughbreds who ever lived. Seriously? **** Oasis..
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Did the Coug really like turf better? He won the Californian twice, coming close to Swaps' track record one time; had a first and two seconds (one to HotY Ack Ack, the other by a nose, giving weight) in the Santa Anita H; he galloped in the Woodward by 5 lengths over the best the East Coast could gather, but had to give it back for crowding the tiring leader as he swept to the lead. He RAN on turf more often than on dirt, but its not clear he was better on one than on the other. The only things he didn't like were a wet track - dirt or turf - and races under a mile. In the Marlboro, His Felinity knocked into the gate at the start, did some fancy broken-field running to get through the field, and was rapidly getting to Riva Ridge for second. Considering he was coming off of a layoff against race-fit competitors at a distance less than his best, he ran up to par, IMHO. |
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This is lame even for you. |
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cS4f6wiQJh4
Still gives me goosebumps after 35 years........ |
watchmaker gets one call right in 20 years ..=:tro:
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This is why Watchmaker is the professional writer and insider and the rest of us are mere mortals. I honestly hadn't even considered the fact that Big Brown wasn't better than Secretariat.
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OK I give in I have to make a comment...to be fair to Big Brown also. At the same point of Seattle Slew's career couldn't you substitute his name for Big Brown's in the title of his column.
Not many compare to Big Red. Oh well why not report the grass is green and the sky is blue. |
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