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Originally Posted by chupster2
Buffy, you can't say you like PD and not get a chorus shouting you down. It's just how it is. It's clear to ME that PD tends to run to the level of horses around him. I think he is not alpha, as someone said. But, as horse of course pointed out, he will slug it out if the horse is with him. If he is such a mediocre horse, I'm sorry he wouldn't have gotten up for 3rd in last years Classic at 6. I'm sick of hearing words like "cheater" and "hanger" when that is not the case, but just as we won't back down that he is a nice horse and deserves what he earns, they will never admit the same. All they want is a Ghostzapper who runs 6 times in his life to cheer over for some odd reason. You and I, we like the campaigner who *always shows up*. If he doesn't win, so be it, but I see folks leaving him out of their tri's all the time, and if that isn't the *dumbest* handicapping move you can make, I don't know what is. It is awful fun, I guess, to come beat the crap out of him on boards. I wouldn't know. I love this horse, and always will.
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my coming here and saying he hung in the race doesn't mean i don't like the horse. i don't recall anyone on here saying he was unliked. after all, who can hate a horse?? and don't make this a for or against, us vs them type thing. that's ridiculous. and as for GZ, hell no i wouldn't want to see more like him. i was always one of his greatest critics for the simple reason he didn't run more than a couple times a year.
i like pd, i hope he does well every time he runs. he always seems to be a hard trying horse. but i'm not going to say what i feel is true either, he did quit before the line. and it cost him the win on saturday.
hopefully next time he runs just a little longer. here's hoping he makes it to the classic again, and finishes well again. i'd like to see more of him, and others like him. simple fact is they don't geld nearly as many horses as they should, and we get robbed from seeing a lot of the best run well for many years.