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Old 08-01-2010, 10:43 PM
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Phil I love you, but I totally disagree with you here.
In 2 months we will be talking about 2yr old champion, Haskell, Travers, big prep and BC winner or runner up to QR. He is far from a POS.
Does that mean he's going to beat Zenyatta?
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Old 08-01-2010, 10:46 PM
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An excerpt from an article in the BloodHorse

"A year after Rachel Alexandra completed the Preakness/Haskell double en route to Horse of the Year honors, Lookin At Lucky has accomplished the same feat -- against a Haskell field many consider the deepest in the race's 43-year history."



http://www.bloodhorse.com/horse-raci...ookin-at-lucky
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Old 08-01-2010, 10:53 PM
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against a Haskell field many consider the deepest in the race's 43-year history.[/i]"
Yes - many people without even basic handicapping skills.

Just because people have watched horse racing and have been in the industry for a long, long time ... doesn't mean they have even the slightest idea what they're talking about when it comes to making competent judgments that involve a morsel of handicapping skill.
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Old 08-01-2010, 10:53 PM
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An excerpt from an article in the BloodHorse

"A year after Rachel Alexandra completed the Preakness/Haskell double en route to Horse of the Year honors, Lookin At Lucky has accomplished the same feat -- against a Haskell field many consider the deepest in the race's 43-year history."



http://www.bloodhorse.com/horse-raci...ookin-at-lucky

deep and good aren't necessarily the same thing. you had classic win/place horses in there, that's where they got the deep from. and yes, it's true, the race today drew a lot of the better horses this year compared to past haskells. doesn't mean it's a better crop tho. lookin at lucky won-someone had to. doesn't mean he's very, very good. or even very good. slow time, yet another slow time to add to all the other slow times this year.
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Does that mean he's going to beat Zenyatta?
He could. He needs to improve, but he could
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