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10-28-2007, 10:01 AM
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but my gosh had they run her the way so many wanted, they'd have been blasted for it if she'd have suffered that breakdown in the classic. I misread what you wrote. You meant that they would literally be "torn to pieces". You're probably right. 
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10-28-2007, 10:05 AM
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it's like when azeri was winning, so many enjoyed it, and wanted more, more. then she lost. oh, they should have quit while they were ahead, she's done enough, don't run her more...fickle fans.
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10-28-2007, 10:14 AM
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I wanted this horse to run, just not in the Classic. Anywhere but the Classic. Nothing to do with the injury, but i wanted to see him in a race he actually had a chance in. The Champion Stakes at Newmarket for his for the taking the weekend before, why oh why choose the f'ing classic? Eagle Mountain was beaten a head in the Champion Stakes, he George was 10 lengths better than he is! I'm annoyed because the Classic shouldn't have been even a possible for the horse. Especially a classic on a dreadful track. No one over here thought he had a chance after the rain. He was being driven hard by Mick Kinane after three furlongs, and if you have seen any of his races before, you will know that is not him AT ALL. He is usually pulling his riders arms out in the early stages of ANY race. There are awful similarities between this and Horatio in the Epsom Derby, doubts at the start and then it happens. I have to agree with Rollo here. As i write this i see yet another brake down on the track 
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10-28-2007, 10:30 AM
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but altho there are similarities between horatio and george, i don't think there was a question about georges soundness just before starting, as there was in horatios case.
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10-28-2007, 10:42 AM
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It is just a tradgedy that the horse broke down. I do not think that you could fault any of the connections involved. We all complain on this board that we lose our stars to the shed way too early. They brought back a four year old to the races. What would have been said when things didn't work out in the shed and then they just put him away in a field at 4 to graze for the rest of his life. I think people would have been clamoring for them to bring him back. As far as the choice of going in the classic, I personally would have rather seen him in the mile. But from what I remember, he didn't have the best trip in the classic last year and he was chasing at least one monster home. He was on the rail the whole way and then had to go 5 wide and he also got bumped. Maybe the owners thought that last years race was much deeper than this years and thought they had a legit shot to win or at least hit the board. Bottom line is that you can bitch and moan all you want, we all lost a wonderful horse.
RIP big fella, you will be missed.
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