American Pharoah...

[Danzig]

Aps owner from egypt, right?
Who the heck spelled the horses name? ☺

[GenuineRisk]

Originally Posted by Danzig

Aps owner from egypt, right?
Who the heck spelled the horses name? ☺

Coincidentally, I just had a conversation with a friend about this- in fact, Zayat didn't name the horse, but Justin Zayat did try to blame the Jockey Club for it:

http://www.sbnation.com/lookit/2015/...-wrong-pharaoh

Heh. Props for the Jockey Club's response.

[pointman]

Originally Posted by GenuineRisk

Coincidentally, I just had a conversation with a friend about this- in fact, Zayat didn't name the horse, but Justin Zayat did try to blame the Jockey Club for it:

http://www.sbnation.com/lookit/2015/...-wrong-pharaoh

Heh. Props for the Jockey Club's response.

We can only hope that Johnny Weir and Tara Lapinski get to the bottom of this major breaking story.

[Arletta]

32 times seems a bit much...

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articl...d-papadopoulos

[Danzig]

Originally Posted by Arletta

32 times seems a bit much...

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articl...d-papadopoulos

it worked

[bare it all]

Husband was watching me with me pointed out down the stretch that the jock was whacking away on Pharoah and the jock on Firing Line wasn't smacking his horse near as much. Kind of hard to explain it really.

[3kings]

Originally Posted by bare it all

Husband was watching me with me pointed out down the stretch that the jock was whacking away on Pharoah and the jock on Firing Line wasn't smacking his horse near as much. Kind of hard to explain it really.

I'll explain it for you. Some horses need more urging than others to keep to the task at hand. Let's start a new thread about the "whacking" so those who realize it's part of the game and it doesn't hurt the horses don't have to filter through this crap again.

[bare it all]

Originally Posted by 3kings

I'll explain it for you. Some horses need more urging than others to keep to the task at hand. Let's start a new thread about the "whacking" so those who realize it's part of the game and it doesn't hurt the horses don't have to filter through this crap again.

No need to get snarky. I'm fine with the whip and understand why it's there. What you said - that's more or less what I told him - just that the horse was probably wasn't used to a horse coming up on him and needed extra urging. You can call it what you want, but to someone who is just watching a sport that is very new for them, it's whacking, regardless of if it hurts the animal or not. Visually, it's not something a neophyte likes to see or understands. It IS hard to explain this part (crop/whip) part of the sport when there is a stark contrast in the urging of the two final competitors coming to the wire.

[Danzig]

Originally Posted by GenuineRisk

Coincidentally, I just had a conversation with a friend about this- in fact, Zayat didn't name the horse, but Justin Zayat did try to blame the Jockey Club for it:

http://www.sbnation.com/lookit/2015/...-wrong-pharaoh

Heh. Props for the Jockey Club's response.

I knew they'd had a naming contest, and wondered if that contributed to the error.
you never know tho. I have my last name spelled incorrectly constantly....just gave out two scholarships, and the home office had my name spelled wrong on them! hello, been with you guys four years now.
when youngest was born, I submitted his ss paperwork. his card came in misspelled. I called, they asked if I was sure that it was wrong. er, I'm sure-I know how to spell my name! all they had to do was copy what I wrote....