Curlin retired?
 

Is it true?

Where did that come from Chuck?

Where did you hear that? I unfortunatly have been preparing for the lovely Gustov since I am just outside of Baton Rouge. :(

Be safe PP..I am in Beaumont...You are of course much closer and it looks like you, as have I, have decided to stay and ride it out..

Well, with the earth shattering announcement of Mcann's Mojave going into the stud business, I guess Jess doesn't want to get beaten to the punch ;)

http://www.drf.com/news/article/97829.html

I just assumed that if was getting 112 beyer for yesterday that it must be a retirement gift. I may just be a dopey horseman as Andy would say but the beyers are getting to be a joke.

Pass The Point would have jumped up to a 108 - 109 then... This after being an average of about 90 in his career, though he did get a 103 for his last effort. Head scratching.

Post Edit, all this while setting contested fast fractions, either he is a very good horse on the upswing or the numbers are amiss.

I thought he looked awful yesterday (compared to his usual self) - first thing I said to the people I was with was that he might be retired. . . Was surprised by the Beyer but these numbers aren't just manufactured. Pace might've been a factor. . .

He is obviously a year older and a better horse. He hadn't run on the dirt in over a year and it shouldn't be surprising that he ran a 108 or 109 yesterday considering his last race.

A 112 beyer is pretty much exactly what Curlin deserved based on the other races yesterday, but considering there was only the one other route it is hard to say how accurate the number was.

The JCGC will be the real test. He will have had his prep to get him fit and he will be running at his ideal distance. We will find out if Dubai took something out of him and he simply isn't the same horse as last year, or he will run huge and stamp his place in history.

He isn't beating a horse like Henrythenavigator in the BCC anyway, so if they were smart they wouldn't even bother to show up.

He's done enough.

I disagree. Sometimes they are. Curlin's fig yesterday is exhibit z.

Beyers are getting to be a joke. Last Sunday at AP the winner of the 1st going 1 1/16th got a number 10 points higher than the winner of the third going the same distance 4/5ths slower and with no weather or track maintenance. not to mention the winner of the 2nd and 8th getting the same number despite the second difference in time at the same difference. The projections that they make often trump what actually happens.

I primarily use bris numbers, I agree the numbers are askew at times and the conspiracist in me may even think fudged. I haven't played Mountaineer in a long time but I always thought the figure maker there was on acid also.

Though Curlin has a ways to go before I compare him to Cigar, I remember thinking the same thing about him when he started to look ordinary. Now ordinary for Cigar was still very good, but you knew you were seeing him on his downside. I have that same feeling Curlin's best races are behind him.

Horses there and delaware get numbers that are rarely duplicated anywhere else

chuck you need to call out curlin..maktus match race.. purse 5 cases of natty light..:tro:

I'd be shocked if the sheets have the race coming back as fast as the Beyer. He carried 126lbs and was hung wide - these days, when that happens and a horse still runs a 112 Beyer it comes back a virtually near all-time record performance on sheets.

The pace figure for the Woodward was 23 points faster than the final figure. You look at the days other route race - horses racing dead last and second to last after the first six furlongs - through a 1:12.70 pace in a 9 horse field - catapulted past the rest of the field and had four lengths on the 3rd place finisher at the finish.

A.P Arrow got a 102 Beyer in the Woodward and he was the horse who clearly ran the most shockingly poor race to me. He had the race unfold perfectly for him and still got beat 6.75 lengths to Curlin at level weight...even worse, he was defeated by both a fried Past The Point and a fried Wanderin Boy with no excuse.

Shockingly poor? Really? It's the same lousy race he always runs. You were expecting a significantly better result from him?

That's not just on the Beyers though.