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Originally Posted by blackthroatedwind
No disrespect intended, as regardless of your unnecessary boasts, you are obviously extremely knowledgable about racing. However, how exactly do you think your supposed respect in the industry bolsters your case for LITF? It seems to me if you felt your opinion, in this instance, stood well enough on its merits you wouldn't have had to have told us how respected you are in the game.
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I wasn't saying that it proves that I am right about LITF. I was simply responding to Jim's comment that maybe I am not that good at judging horses who beat nobody. I was simply saying that that is not true. I am very good at judging a horse's abilty simply by watching the horse run. I can make a good judgement of a horse's ability by watching them work an 1/8th of a mile alone. That's much tougher than judging a horse's ability based on a maiden win. With LITF, it was much easier than that. We got to watch him run 10 times.
I agree with you that it is not good to boast and boasting can be obnoxious. However, there is a difference between boasting out of the blue and boasting to defend yourself. In fact, I think I can make a good argument that if you use your credentials to defend yourself, that is not boasting. For example, if a guy went to college at Harvard and he always brags about it, then that is boasting. But if a guy who went to Harvard is accused of being uneducated, I think it would be appropriate for him to say, "Of course I am educated, I went to Harvard." In that situation, I would not call that boasting. The guy is simply defending himself.