[freddymo]

Originally Posted by Linny

No matter the outcome, from top to bottom the DWC had a better lineup this year than last and apart from Curlin a better lineup than 2 years ago. I follow international racing closely and apart from the US horses there were 7 G1 winners. Gloria has run in the Carnival the last 3 or 4 years and won one of the local preps for this race. He won the G1 Singapore Cup last year. Alybar has clearly moved up his game since going to Tapeta, but then again Cigar wasn't "Cigar" until he got to dirt. Red Desire was a G1 winner in Japan who was third to their 2x HOY in the $5.4m Japan Cup last fall and had woon a Tapeta prep locally.
The fact that the US horses didn't get the big money is no excuse for trashing the race. Who the heck did Curlin beat when we were gloating about the best horse in the world?

As for the timing, to the Aussies, it's late summer, so it's like the end of the Saratoga or Del Mar meetings yet they still show up. In Hong Kong and Japan and Singapore, they are on northern time and their seasons are just picking up.

As for the horses involved being oldsters of little value, Gloria is 6 in his native Brazil. Allybar is 4 and Lizard's Desire is 4 in his native South Africa. Maybe if the US based trainers could figure out how to keep a horse around that long, some of them might develop a following, like HK's Good Baba who won the HK Mile for the 3rd time last fall at age 7. He's 16 for 39 and he's a KY bred. Many of those trainers with long lasting horses train on synthetics.

I love the irony of people complaining about the DWC siphoning off too many good American horses then complaining that running it on Tapeta makes it phony. You should be happy, maybe no Americans will bother. If you don't follow or care about interational racing, then why even look at or read about the DWC races?

Linny would the 6mil dollar winner be favorite in a overstakes this summer at 1 3/16ths at Monmouth Park? Get a grip these horses are basically 100k claimers MAYBE