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08-05-2006, 04:24 PM
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Terrible Terrible Test
What is wrong with the thoroughbred species today?
Are we to believe that there isn't one filly in the entire U.S.A. who is capable of running the last 3f of a 7f race in less than 40 seconds? Was that supposed to be a G1 race? Sheesh ... this game is really going to hades in a handbasket. 
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08-05-2006, 04:35 PM
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BB,
Sour GRAPES!!!! Your pick didn't do a thing...do you s u c k or what? Never discount the "Chief" or Coa. NEVER!!!
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#3
08-05-2006, 04:41 PM
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It's not terrible, I'm a G1 winner now
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08-05-2006, 06:02 PM
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They came home slowly, but that was a suicidal half mile out of the gate
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Do I think Charity can win? Well, I am walking around in yesterday's suit.
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#5
08-06-2006, 11:21 AM
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I thought it was terrible too. A grade 1 race shouldn't have grade 3 runners.
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#6
08-06-2006, 11:25 AM
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What's their excuse?
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#7
08-06-2006, 11:26 AM
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graded races have non graded winners in their fields quite often...where else would graded winners come from? they have to get their first somewhere...
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Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all. Abraham Lincoln
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#8
08-06-2006, 11:28 AM
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This didn't even resemble a grade 3 field.
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#9
08-06-2006, 11:29 AM
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but you just said it was full of grade three runners, so at the very least it should have resembled a grade three field, right?
and nice duh. do you feel better now?
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Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all. Abraham Lincoln
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#10
08-06-2006, 11:34 AM
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... not the pathetic lineup of yesterday's race. When Gamely won the Test Stakes in 1967 ... she ran the last 3f in :36.2. That was a race horse!
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#11
08-06-2006, 11:38 AM
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#12
08-06-2006, 11:41 AM
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Mrls............
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#13
08-06-2006, 12:02 PM
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the test is another victim of owners of the 'best' being incredibly selective of where and how often to run. you can't make gr 1 winners enter. all the best up there are waiting for the alabama. also, a 7f event right now probably doesn't enter into anyone's plans of a good race to build foundation for the 9f distaff in a couple months. not when the best are already running further right now, a 7f would be a step in the wrong direction, wouldnt it?
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Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all. Abraham Lincoln
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#14
08-06-2006, 02:56 PM
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... and it always drew overflow fields of the best fillies ... in fact ... it was almost always split into two divisions ... ... and the fields usually included all the top fillies prepping for the Alabama ... almost always including that year's 3YO filly champion. It's simple ... the game just isn't what it used to be ... very, very few horses today who can be called professional athletes.
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