[Rupert Pupkin]

Originally Posted by kentuckyrosesinmay

I am not going to get into the arguement about LITF. I haven't read this entire thread and I was just replying back to the questions you asked. All I can say is that LITF is a lot better horse than he showed this past weekend and something is definitely wrong with him. He is nowhere near the horse he was last year. While he isn't a great horse, he is a really good one, and I just think he isn't a fraud, and is a classy animal. A horse loses a couple of races after he had won 10+ races in a row and he is considered a fraud...Well I guess Secretariat and Spectacular Bid were frauds too. Horses are always called frauds after having huge win streaks and then losing. People's emotions take the best of them because they have such high expectations for the horse and are extremely disappointed when the animal actually does lose so they start bad-mouthing the horse. LITF has something wrong with him...that is why they are considering retiring him. He was never into the race this past weekend and he was never himself. LITF beat Kelly's Landing in the Aristrides and KL is quite a good sprinter. And yes he was never fully extended in the races in which he lost. He just didn't try. In the BC, I think that he was weary from a tiresome campaign, and this weekend, I think that he has physical ailments combined with the fact that he didn't take to the track.

It is the same with Lawyer Ron. LR won all of his starts on dirt except for the toughest race in his career, the KD, and in doing so had to go into surgery immediately after the Derby to remove a chip. He hasn't worked since. Yet people still seem to say he was overrated and overhyped. Same with Afleet Alex when he had a lung infection in the Rebel. Everyone said that he was overrated and overhyped too....well he showed everyone who said that a thing or two.

I agree with everything you said.