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Originally Posted by largo1
Just watched the replay a few times and have a few comments:
1) At the time it *seemed* like an exciting race, but really now, it wasn't ALL that great.
2)When Mike Smith took Lion Heart wide, I assumed (and probably everyone else did too), that he was doing that to force Smarty wide. But, now, in retrospect, I think he was actually trying to find "The Mike Smith Path" (you know, the one he took with Deputy Glitters a couple years later)
Just a couple 1:00 am observations.  |
In some kind of objective and retrospective analysis, what you say about whether it was a great race may be true. But I was in the stands that day and I can tell you that it was pretty exciting. During the stretch run, it was so loud that I was yelling at the top of my lungs and I couldn't hear my own voice.
Of course, I also drove up to Belmont that year. That was the most disheartening day I ever personally experienced in horse racing.