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Old 01-17-2007, 02:48 PM
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Originally Posted by SCUDSBROTHER
The 2 horse getting place in the B.C. Sprint is the biggest sign that the rail was pumped up.The horse can't win the Mike Lee for New York breds,but can run 2nd in the biggest sprint race in the Country? The four consecutive 1 horses winning pales in comparison to this.

The thing that was the best about Friendly Island (not to rehash the bias thing, cuz it's pretty beat to death) was how Eric Wing posted about loving Friendly Island on about three different occasions on the ntra.com homepage in the month leading to the BC. He laid out a really compelling (for lack of a better word) argument about why Friendly Island was going to be a HUGE overlay bomber in that race, based on his performances.

I didn't believe it, because obviously the horse was having a hard time getting a win anywhere, but I can't say that the man was talking like a crazy person either beforehand. Usually when people get lucky on something like that, i think of it just that way -- lucky. But Wing had been so adamant and so logical in laying it out, that I wasn't totally shocked that the horse ran a big one.
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