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Old 09-17-2007, 01:33 PM
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Originally Posted by my miss storm cat
There are vague indications and rumors on a few other forums that he was euthanized, that the injury was horrific, that he is gone, but it hasn't been confirmed so his fans wait and we remind ourselves that there are miracles even if in our collective hearts we fear what 'they" say is true.

In the arguments and debates that some of the old-timers are have perfected, the point is raised that race horses simply don't race these days. Around their third year the greed sets in and they're whisked off to stud and replaced by the newer flavors of the month. The cycle continues, the back-in-our-day-isms flow and the end-is-near shouting begins, and we hear how the sport is dying.

In waiting for news about Super Frolic I just want to remind the doom-sayers that THIS horse represents everything that is right with this sport that we all love. THIS horse never ducked competition. THIS horse went to Dubai to run in the World Cup, ran in the Breeder's Cup, in the Pacific Classic, in the Hollywood Gold Cup.....

THIS horse who is 7 years old (and not a gelding) and who came out of retirement for whatever reason..... THIS horse represents everything the nay-sayers claim no longer exists.

If he survives I hope that he'll live a long and happy life in retirement.

If he does not, I hope it was over quickly and that he didn't suffer, and that his connections know that some of us are profoundly sorry for their loss and that he was appreciated.
I'm sorry that u are saddened by his death but I don't think u are at all correct here. We've come to expect the second level horses to stick around for years and years and race much more often than the good horses. We see the Wilko's, the Sun King's, the Super Frolic's hang around and compete all the time. This horse doesn't represent anything that I love about the sport. What most of us "doom-sayers" as u call us want to see is a time when the good horses stick around and race more than 5-6 times a year and don't take two month layoffs between races. Sure, they never ducked competition with him but that's because he was no competition. Would they have taken the same kinds of risks with him had he been good enough to be winning some of those big races he was running in? Who knows? But I can't help but believe that he was only sticking around because he was fairly competitive on the lower levels and could earn some money (nothing wrong with that at all) and because as Sniper said, he wasn't a strong breeding prospect.

But to say that he represents everything we say doesn't exist anymore is flat out wrong. We know it exists at the lower levels. We just want to see it exist again at the upper levels. Super Frolic isn't an upper level horse.
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