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11-06-2010, 05:58 PM
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except the race, hoy and having the win streak record. she'll be tied with peppers pride forever now, how ironic.
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11-06-2010, 05:59 PM
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She lost HOTY (if there is a God)
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11-06-2010, 06:02 PM
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That was perfect. Now it will haunt them the rest of their lives.
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11-06-2010, 06:08 PM
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She ran a great race. She was so much closer than I thought she would be. I'm now officially impressed.
 Having said that, I'm glad this is behind us now.On another note, Mike Smith is a drama queen.  She ran a hellofa race. Nothing to mope about.
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11-06-2010, 06:08 PM
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I've always been a detractor, and yes, I was desperately cheering for Blame to hold her off.
However, she ran very well, and proved to me that she is a better horse than I ever gave her credit for. I'm glad she didn't finish undefeated, but the point many people were trying to make in criticizing the way she was campaigned was that losing a race wasn't the end of the world. And it isn't. She ran a very good race. For me, this race enhanced her reputation. Sure she was overrated by many and that made me dislike her, but today she travelled away from her home base, beat some very good dirt horses on dirt, and lost by a nose to another very good horse.
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11-06-2010, 06:12 PM
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I said on this forum a couple of years ago that one day Smith would give her too much to do, and today was the day. She ran her race.
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11-06-2010, 07:32 PM
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11-06-2010, 09:19 PM
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Agree. The horse has shown today to be something very special. Maybe not amonst the greatest ever, but on a short list of exceptional talents we are only seldom are to see.
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11-06-2010, 06:06 PM
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11-06-2010, 06:08 PM
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11-06-2010, 06:11 PM
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Your literally trolling 3 threads right now about this... Keep it up, I wont stay to be part of it.
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11-06-2010, 06:15 PM
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the slugs in your back yard..
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11-06-2010, 06:23 PM
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She lost and I'm very disappointed, but I thought the sentiment by the "unbiased" was that she would be exposed in this race as a synthetic specialist which couldn't translate her grade I (restricted) form to dirt. Is that what happened?
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11-06-2010, 06:29 PM
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I think what might get lost here is how horrid this field was in relation to past editions of this race.
Whoever was riding First Dude caused a huge pace collapse .. it basically was supposed to be a stone cold Blame 1st and Fly Down 2nd type of race at that point. Credit John Shireffs - he has an amazing record when he points for an objective. Zenyatta ran much better than I thought she would. The final time was a joke. Uncle Mo is going to get a Beyer figure only 3 full points slower than Blame will for winning a wildly sub-par edition of the Classic. I remember everyone make a huge deal about about how Arazi was the star of the 1991 Breeders Cup ... keep in mind he needed 1:46.40 in his blowout win over Bertrando.. Uncle Mo needed 1:42.60 today ... his final time was 3.80 full seconds (or 22 lengths) faster than Arazi's in his destruction Bertrando. Blame's final time of 2:02.28 - was just 0.52 seconds faster than Black Tie Affair's 2:02.80 Breeders Cup Classic win at Churchill also in 1991. It's a pretty sad statement to the older males when you have a horse like Blame - who's run Beyers in the 101-to-103 range in five of his last six career starts .. and even so I thought enough of him to make him my 2nd pick in this race in the paper today. There was no slouch like Volponi or Mine That Bird out there today to deep six this field and make a mockery of them ... but this group was asking for it. Japan sent over the wrong horse. A speedy miler off of a bad prep .. had they sent over some late running dirt closer in halfway decent form - they probably win this.
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11-06-2010, 06:32 PM
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Who was your pick? (Or maybe I should ask: how many other 'picks' did you get in the race?)
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11-06-2010, 06:34 PM
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Blame 2nd Haynesfield 3rd Two of them got baked on the pace and were beaten a mile... the other won a collapsing stagger fest.
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