Underrated / Overrated

[The Indomitable DrugS]

Originally Posted by Indian Charlie

I was having trouble coming up with an underrated horse, and then it occurred to me, that MMSC was asking a trick question, since it's nearly impossible to underrate anyone currently running.

It's not easy picking a most underrated horse so far this year... but here's my pick.

http://community.drf.com/files/hollywood-hit.pdf


You're talking about an Oklahoma bred racing in Canada that pretty much no one cares about ... he's beaten some pretty nice horses and run some very fast races .. especially for synthetic surfaces.

[Indian Charlie]

Originally Posted by The Indomitable DrugS

It's not easy picking a most underrated horse so far this year... but here's my pick.

http://community.drf.com/files/hollywood-hit.pdf


You're talking about an Oklahoma bred racing in Canada that pretty much no one cares about ... he's beaten some pretty nice horses and run some very fast races .. especially for synthetic surfaces.

Wow, that's a pretty nice looking horse. However, now that you've outed him, PG1985 will become aware of this horse and proclaim him the greatest sprinter since Zensational, thus either making him the most overrated horse this year, or not making him the most overrated horse this year.

Either way, he's almost a certainty to win OK bred HOY 2010.

[my miss storm cat]

Not a trick question and very nice example with Hollywood Hit.

I feel bad naming my first overrated. I'm sorry Brockguy! I know you like this one a lot.

Presvis.
Was a very nice horse but lately?
9th at Ascot
5th at Sha Tin (QE II) Cup
5th at Kranji (SIA Cup)
11th in Dubai

Cavalryman.
Formerally with Fabre, now with Godolphin.
Prix Niel (G2) winner
Won Grand Prix De Paris (Group 1)
3rd in the Arc
5th in the Coronation Cup
12th Prince of Wales's
Down, down, down and it's a shame cause he could have been, well... it's too bad.

Underrated...

Typhoon Tracy.
4 G1 wins, 3 of which were this year and so many people have never heard this name. 10 wins from 14 starts total.

http://horseform.racingandsports.com...137B93D55E8D22

Spanish Moon.

Always neglected, always ignored, never talked about...
6, 3, 2 from 15 starts
Wins include Prix Foy (he beat Vision d'Etat)
Grand Prix de Saint-Cloud (Group 1)
2nd in the Hong Kong Vase
Nice horse who I think gets confused with Purple Moon (who is okaaay).

[Indian Charlie]

Originally Posted by my miss storm cat

Not a trick question and very nice example with Hollywood Hit.

I feel bad naming my first overrated. I'm sorry Brockguy! I know you like this one a lot.

Presvis.
Was a very nice horse but lately?
9th at Ascot
5th at Sha Tin (QE II) Cup
5th at Kranji (SIA Cup)
11th in Dubai

Cavalryman.
Formerally with Fabre, now with Godolphin.
Prix Niel (G2) winner
Won Grand Prix De Paris (Group 1)
3rd in the Arc
5th in the Coronation Cup
12th Prince of Wales's
Down, down, down and it's a shame cause he could have been, well... it's too bad.

Underrated...

Typhoon Tracy.
4 G1 wins, 3 of which were this year and so many people have never heard this name. 10 wins from 14 starts total.

http://horseform.racingandsports.com...137B93D55E8D22

Spanish Moon.

Always neglected, always ignored, never talked about...
6, 3, 2 from 15 starts
Wins include Prix Foy (he beat Vision d'Etat)
Grand Prix de Saint-Cloud (Group 1)
2nd in the Hong Kong Vase
Nice horse who I think gets confused with Purple Moon (who is okaaay).

Well, if you are going to talk about underrated horses from Hong Kong, there is this horse I'm really high on that's been running on the planet of Ork. Mindy's Pet.

He's only won 3 of 8 starts, but I feel once they stop running him over astro turf, he'll do much better.

[my miss storm cat]

Originally Posted by Indian Charlie

Well, if you are going to talk about underrated horses from Hong Kong,

... I'd have to list ALL of them!

[The Indomitable DrugS]

Ice Box might have been a decent choice two days after the Derby ... but after the Belmont that goes out the window. Does anyone really still think he's anything?

I've always been amazed by how stupid people are with the simple concept of understanding what it means to be underrated and overrated.

[Indian Charlie]

Originally Posted by The Indomitable DrugS

Ice Box might have been a decent choice two days after the Derby ... but after the Belmont that goes out the window. Does anyone really still think he's anything?

I've always been amazed by how stupid people are with the simple concept of understanding what it means to be underrated and overrated.

If not for the big Z, Ice Box would have been a runaway winner of the overrated question. And that was before the Belmont.

[The Indomitable DrugS]

Originally Posted by Indian Charlie

If not for the big Z, Ice Box would have been a runaway winner of the overrated question. And that was before the Belmont.

That was for maybe like 2 days after the Derby. Obviously not before it. The horse he nipped in the FLA Derby photo goes today at CD on the turf.

[Indian Charlie]

Originally Posted by The Indomitable DrugS

That was for maybe like 2 days after the Derby.

Not for me. Now, maybe not since he lost, but after he won the Fla Derby, bleh.

The attention the two Zito horses were getting was unwarranted in my eyes.