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03-09-2008, 06:00 PM
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03-09-2008, 06:08 PM
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03-09-2008, 06:16 PM
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03-09-2008, 06:20 PM
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03-09-2008, 07:59 PM
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Here is one of the greatest international races ever...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L73fO0MDmAg The '98 Mainichi Okan featuring the battle between Japan's two greatest horses of the 90s. The brilliant run-off Silence Suzuka VS the great El Condor Pasa. It was there only meeting and El Condor Pasa's only career loss in Japan. He lost a big stretch duel with Montjeu in the Arc the following year, while Daylami struggled with the ground that day. This was one of Silence Suzuka's 6 straight Group stake wins before breaking down with a 15 length lead on the far turn in the Emperor's Cup. The final time was 1:44 4/5ths for 9 furlongs.
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03-09-2008, 08:03 PM
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It seems to me this is a very difficult situation.
You have a very talented horse that does not appear to be rateable. I definitely think the horse was hurt by being restrained in this particular race. I think the horse wasted a lot of energy fighting and then running inefficiently. She may have lost anyway, but she was definitely not going to win with that kind of chokehold early with the two horse pressing. I would have been inclined to loosen up earlier than Gomez did if she fought that hard. Seems like that should have been discussed. I thought that a trainer is supposed to take care of this during training. Did they train her in company and she was responding well to being held back but just got excited in the race and took off? Its a tough way to experiment... during a stakes race. And with the length of that stretch run... Indian Blessing was not having any fun.
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03-09-2008, 08:33 PM
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Here's the race where Silence Suzuka broke down on a 15 length lead on the far turn - dying. It was sort of Japan's Ruffian or Barbaro type situation.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Osrn-FOEHwM He actually ran three consecutive 10 and change furlongs in this race - for a 32 3/5th three furlong move that left the field stretched about 50 lengths. Most of those Japan horses don't ever travel, but in this race, I'm sure you'll notice 2nd place finisher Stay Gold. He shipped to Dubai and won a nose bob over Fantastic Light on World Cup day, and that was the year that Fantastic Light was voted Eclipse Award champion Turf horse in America and Horse of the year in Europe.
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