Giant Oak to Formal Gold?

[freddymo]

Originally Posted by tjfrab

Steve,
Did I actually hear you compare Giant Oak to Formal Gold last week? Good thing Serling stopped you from further embarrassing yourself. That is a disgrace and exposes either extremely poor judgement, some kind of bias or you just choosing to view the current quality of horses through rose colored glasses. Giant Oak failed to finish 1st in over a dozen straight races, many of them grade 2 and grade 3's against inferior competition. He gets a perfect setup and trip to just get up in the Donn last week and now he's Formal Gold? Just to refresh, Formal Gold ran many monster races and beat Skip Away by open lengths in 3 straight races at 3 different tracks before getting hurt. Skip Away then won the BC Classic by open lengths. To compare Giant Oak to any of the big 3 horses that year (Skip Away, Wills Way, Formal Formal Gold) is just plain ridiculous. Put Giant Oak at his best against Formal Gold's 3rd or 4th best race and he still loses by 15 lengths. Get a clue, please.

The guy spends his whole life in the industry and is bright. I disagree with him all the time and think he is wrong a lot. That never means I dont realize he knows a lot about the sport and its history.

I heard the show as I hear them all and I two was perplexed by Steve's comparsions but I knew at the time that it wasnt one that was to compare abilty.