[freddymo]

Originally Posted by hockey2315

I really don't understand why there's so much resistance to the figure in and of itself. The horse's performance warranted the fig - maybe even higher. It probably wasn't the easiest fig to calculate considering the weather, distance involved, etc... and like Drugs said - it's not as if the also-rans were given career bests. Not sure why the 114 was such a surprise.

I guess a lot of the odd responses come from a disdain for supertrainers like Wolfson, and I'm probably just as skeptical as anyone else when it comes to the unbelievable results that guys like him have, but the possible explanation for the fig does NOTHING to diminish the horse's performance. The horse ran an incredibly fast and impressive race regardless of whether or not it was under the influence of a banned substance or simply oats and water.

Like I said earlier, though. There's plenty of reason to believe that the performance we saw yesterday was simply a case of a very well-bred, talented horse doing what it was supposed to do.

She's by Empire Maker, who ran figs close to her's and who is out of one of the most productive dams of all time. He has already proven his merits as a sire.

Icon Project is out of La Gueriere - a grade 1 winner on turf who has produced a G2 SW on turf. That one sired multi-millionaire Honey Ryder. La Gueriere is also a 1/2 to $1.2M earner Al Mamoon among a few others, including Lost Soldier - Lost in the Fog's sire who has also produced some other ok horses.

They paid $775,000 for a reason.

Now despite all the turf success in her pedigree, she clearly prefers dirt.

In her three dirt races she has a romp in the mud first off the lay-off in a race that deserves an asterisk but still signaled her affinity for the main track, then an ok second while running against the grain on a track that horses often love or hate, and then her most recent effort third off the lay-off with a better trip and at a distance she's clearly bred for and cares for.

Can't we just be happy that another monster has emerged on the scene?

Munnings is a close up family member as well..