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Originally Posted by DaHoss9698
Let me ask you, does it make any sense to take a horse that is a speed horse and rate him back away from his preferred running style? So why isn't it the same with a horse that prefers to come from off the pace? This may be a news flash to you, but horses have preferred running styles. Closers prefer to come from off the pace and horses with speed prefer to be up close. Stevie Wonder can see what Street Sense's prefered style is. For some reason, you know better than Nafzger and want him to do something else. It's laughable.
No one called Street Sense brilliant. he's not. He's a very good horse, who has won 3 of the most prestigious races in his generation. Hard to take that away. I don't know why it is so hard to understand this.
And the Derby stuff is old, like the "I'm not a fan of how American horses are trained" attitude. Good horses make good trips. Many, many horses had the same opportunity to come up that same rail that he did. No one else did. To say if he doesn't ride the rail, he finishes mid pack is crazy. Since Novemeber of last year I've been hearing about if Street Sense doesn't get this.... Well, he has proven A LOT of people wrong. How much did you bet on Street Sense yesterday, because your arguement stinks of a disgruntled gambler. And Hard Spun will not be loose on the lead. Again, Stevie Wonder can see what the horse can do when allowed to be on the lead alone. Not going to happen..
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I just felt that Borel made a half hearted attempt to rush up Hard Spun but then decided to take a pull, as if he was in two minds. In these sort of races, where it is
obviously no problem if the horse wins or not, why is it so much of a no no that they see if he can run closer to the pace early? That is what is so different between racing in our countries. When a race is known to be that tactical, the tactics of horses are often changed so they can experiment in a "prep" race, what is lost if the horse doesn't win, but still gets a good run under his belt? In my opinion, nothing. Why not use these races to experiment?
But then coming into the straight, Borel really got very serious with Street Sense.... but this was just a "prep", right? In my opinion, he got more serious in the saddle than Pino did on Hard Spun. The ride just didn't make any sense to me.
To answer your question, no, i didn't bet Street Sense, i didn't play this race at all.... mainly because i fancied Hard Spun but i did wonder whether they would experiment a little with Street Sense.
Well, watching the Derby over and over again, i cannot see how he would have got anywhere near the lead if it wasn't for the rail run. True, no one else went for it and Borel decided to try his luck, and fair play to him.
I apologise that i do not agree with you, but there was really no need for the Stevie Wonder comments.