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Originally Posted by DaHoss9698
I never thought he should have been champion sprinter last year either. But, I also don't know who should have gotten it. Do you, because people here say that he shouldn't, yet offer no solution. You make a good point with Groovy, but racing has changed a lot since then. There are so many more races, especially for 3 year olds, with giant purses. My point was that the horse won 10 straight last year and did it all over the country. Like I said previously I don't particularily care for LITF. Tried to beat him everytime last year, and this year. But I can appreciate a horse who is 11 for 14 lifetime. That's no easy task, and especially in the races he was running in. I know, the sprinters in general were a tad on the light side, hence the fact that LITF was champ. Do I think a 3 year old sprinter who never beat older horses should have been champ, no way. But I do think what LITF did last year was fun to watch, and again you don't win like that by fluke.
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I have no problem with what you say here Hoss. He wasnt a fluke. He was a pretty good horse. He was fun to watch and something to get excited about. But then, he proved that he wasnt nearly as good as he was hyped to be.
Surely his accomplishments last year deserve merit if for nothing else but consistency. He was consistently good enough to beat average to bad restricted three year old sprinters. He was consistently fast enough to think that just maybe he could be something special. And now, he has been consistently beaten enough to know that he isnt anything special.
No one ever said he wasnt a decent horse.