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Originally Posted by RolloTomasi
Your posting skills are improving about as rapidly as you imagined Twirling Candy's racing skills have since last fall.
Again, a lot of this has to do with competition. Of course if he faces a bunch of cream puffs in the Big Cap, which is highly likely, he'll probably win. It won't prove anything.
His superstar status is completely a product of the anemic CA racing industry. Just as Rail Trip's was last year.
Back as recent as the early '90s, horses like Bertrando, In Excess, and Afternoon Deelites were in the position he was in, and he couldn't hold a candle to any of those. All 3 of those failed miserably in the Big Cap (in fact, they were also upset at odds-on in the Strub, when it was run at 10f).
The fact that a horse like this has a chance to win a prestigious race like the Big Cap under such fair weather conditions, not to mention, already--with the aid of a superhighway--erasing Spectacular Bid's world record effort at 7f, is tragedy of the highest order in my eyes.
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For the record..Likely winner of the Big Cap or will be a miler?
Rail Trip was never sound and the only person who deemed him a superstar was Team Z
Who cares who raced in 1995 that was 16 years ago and while we all wished the times were different they arent. And BTW the Donn was a rag tag group of nobodys. So it isnt like east coast talent is overwhelming either.
Now you want to cloud the issue with track conditions? The track is what the track is. You like the Calder surface better? They run 1:11 and the BSF is a 115. What do track records have to do with anything?