Bounce 'this! ; The Florida Derby was Quality Road's best race yet.

[Danzig]

Originally Posted by VOL JACK

I follow Danzig and Sumitas....Screw BTW and DrugS.

why do i get the feeling i should NOT feel flattered....

[alysheba4]

Originally Posted by miraja2

Obviously everyone is entitled to enjoy whichever aspects of this sport they choose to enjoy, but I can't understand your logic exactly. Just to be clear, are you really saying that Housebuster's entire 3yo campaign (which included something like 7 or 8 graded stakes victories, and a second in the Met Mile behind Criminal Type and in front of Easy Goer) was meaningless? Holy Bull winning the Met Mile in '94 was meaningless? Or even a couple of performances a few years ago from colts like Henny Hughes or Discreet Cat? I could go on and on.

By your logic here it seems that races like the Met Mile, the Vosburgh, the Kings Bishop, the Riva Ridge, and a host of others are simply meaningless for you. Everyone gets to decide for themselves what races interest them, and each individual obviously has a specific type of racing that interests them most, but I think discounting all 3yo racing under 9f as meaningless means you are missing out on appreciating some really good races and some really good horses.

........i hear it, prior to the 1st saturday in may.

[sdjcom]

i listened to the replay with haskin& stitch, and i respect their opinion, and they have forgotten more about horseracing than i'll ever know ,however the galloping out 5 lengths better than QR,and running fast 3 consecutive 1/8th miles and this that and the other, doesn't mean anything if you don't win the race. next time means nothing, or boy watch out for dunkirk if he gets in derby. Dunkirk might get in and win and go undefeated the rest of the year who knows, but until he beats a horse or horses like QR then he's just a pretender. I don't want to hear about pace set-up ,rabbit in the race.\ jacked-up speed track or excuses of anykind, no matter how fantastic of a move a horse makes, if he or she doesn.t win who cares. Curlin made a similar big move in BC and got trounced in the stretch, the most important spot on track after the break. Pace who can really figure it out? he galloped-out 5 lenghts past QR because he needs new brake shoes.....lol

[hoovesupsideyourhead]

qr has a higher cruising speed and his breaking ability makes him a dangerous
horse.he can make the lead save ground and still take off late..dunkirk is kind of lazy and needs to be rousted . even when he came along side qr he should have blown by him ..he did not and qr just dug with little urging. im sure they wanted to win the race but qr wasnt all out saving him for the derby.imo

[Bobby Fischer]

Originally Posted by hoovesupsideyourhead

qr has a higher cruising speed and his breaking ability makes him a dangerous
horse.he can make the lead save ground and still take off late..dunkirk is kind of lazy and needs to be rousted . even when he came along side qr he should have blown by him ..he did not and qr just dug with little urging. im sure they wanted to win the race but qr wasnt all out saving him for the derby.imo

that is what impressed me most.
I wasn't sure QR had that ability.
Supposedly that 7 furlong work coming up to the Fl. Derby was 1:25 and clocked finishing in 23+change.
I believe it now.

[Travis Stone]

I can't wait until Sunday evening when we have a new round of preps (and horses) to talk about.

[cowgirlintexas]

Originally Posted by Travis Stone

I can't wait until Sunday evening when we have a new round of preps (and horses) to talk about.

Well at least we have a bit more variety this year verses to last year's "Big Brown this, Big Brown that..."



and "yes" I do admit to being one of those people

[johnny pinwheel]

Originally Posted by sdjcom

i listened to the replay with haskin& stitch, and i respect their opinion, and they have forgotten more about horseracing than i'll ever know ,however the galloping out 5 lengths better than QR,and running fast 3 consecutive 1/8th miles and this that and the other, doesn't mean anything if you don't win the race. next time means nothing, or boy watch out for dunkirk if he gets in derby. Dunkirk might get in and win and go undefeated the rest of the year who knows, but until he beats a horse or horses like QR then he's just a pretender. I don't want to hear about pace set-up ,rabbit in the race.\ jacked-up speed track or excuses of anykind, no matter how fantastic of a move a horse makes, if he or she doesn.t win who cares. Curlin made a similar big move in BC and got trounced in the stretch, the most important spot on track after the break. Pace who can really figure it out? he galloped-out 5 lenghts past QR because he needs new brake shoes.....lol

that two cents is worth a million. i'll laugh if dunkirk gets in, is bet at a lower price and gets his a$$ handed to him again by quality road. at this point i can't see that horse beating quality road, for all the squawking the race was not even close.