Thank You Mine That Bird

[Danzig]

Originally Posted by CSC

We touched on this in a thread you started 2 weeks ago in I believe titled sythetic converter, regardless with synthetic surfaces assigning and comparing numbers to horses that run on diifferent surfaces is not be as accurate(I use that word tepidly) as when horses used to race exclusively on dirt. Theoretically Dunkirk, Friesan Fire, and Papa Clem would have been the most logical Beyer finish, but it didn't happen, then I don't understand why we should say IWR, QR and Old Fashioned I am assuming he is the third horse would have been 1-1A-3 today if they ran.

anyone looking to explain the finish today is up against it. this race is an aberration. no one, in a million years, would have ever come up with mine that bird as the winner today. no way, no how. it happens sometimes that a horse runs well for whatever reason. off track could explain the results of todays race. that alone may not be the reason-hell, there may be no reason. just like there's no reason a 100-1 shot won the travers, or a horse like seek gold or colonial colony wins a gr 1. or black seventeen winning for that matter... folks take an odd result as gospel and bet a horse like mad the next time out. and the next...and so on. some times you have an inexplicable result, today being one of those times. several belmonts in recent memory are others.