'17 CROWN TRAIL THREAD: Always Dreaming; Cloud Computing; Tapwrit

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Originally Posted by taxicab

Well....
You asked for me "to point out one horse that even steadied hard".
I gave you six.
Far from hyperbole.........all I did was point out the facts.
Considering you watched the race,I'm quite surprised you can't see the obvious.

No, you quoted a chart. I watched the race. Nobody got "crushed." There was some bumping. It's a 20 horse field going 1 1/4. All things considered, there wasn't a significant amount of trouble.

What hurt Classic Empire most about the bumping was that it cost him position, something that was very valuable in this particular race. Couple that with him being forced to rally wide, and there's a more than reasonable argument that he ran the second best race.

IMO, it's best to focus on what actually happened, and how it may have affected the horses involved. Horses have trouble all the time that ultimately proves irrelevant.