[King Glorious]

Originally Posted by NoChanceToDance

She had a bad gate draw, and really raced to keenly to get towards to lead before the turn. Around the turn she was about four wide.

She soon tired.

It was always going to be difficult for her from that draw. She is a great horse and i'd just forget about this run because everything went wrong for her.

We all know how good she is, she had nothing to prove.

From the DRF before the race:
The four big races on the Sha Tin card are billed as the World Thoroughbred Turf Championships, but only the $1.5 million, six-furlong Hong Kong Sprint will crown a definitive world champ. That could be Australian rocket Miss Andretti. The winner of three Group 1 sprints Down Under this year, she has also won the Group 2 King's Stand Stakes at Royal Ascot and is coming off a sharp Group 2 score at home. Her draw of post 12 in a field of 13 should not be a disadvantage in this one-turn contest, but the International Sprint Trial winner, Sacred Kingdom, and defending title-holder Absolute Champion pose very serious threats. So do British invader Benbaun and the dangerous Marchand d'Or, a two-time Freddie Head-trained Group 1 winner who could be the day's value play at 14-1.

I agree that the post was no excuse after watching the race. She was just in tough and got it handed to her.

As for the other races, I totally expected to see Dylan Thomas and Excellent Art get their asses kicked. I guess nobody has paid any attention to the post BC results of several of the horses that have run back that put in big efforts in the BC races. Nobiz Like Shobiz, Host, Midnight Lute and Cosmonaut all have come back to get handled at short odds. I don't think people realize what it means to train a horse to be at his absolute best at the end of a long season for a specific race and then ask them to come back and repeat that effort again on a relatively quick turnaround. Dylan's connections did him wrong twice. I've long said that there is a reason why no Arc winner has come over to win the BC Turf and Dylan continued that tradition this year. Many people wanted to write off his loss as a result of the course but he proved here that it wasn't the course, it was bad training decisions. The horse was clearly at the end of his rope in the Arc, when barely outlasting a rival that he had destroyed a few months earlier and when zig-zagging all over Paris to get it done. Not only did they try to squeeze the lemon again but they tried to do it twice. For good measure, they did it both times after shipping very long distances. Brilliant. The same doesn't quite hold true for Excellent Art but very near. He ran a bang up race in the QE II Stakes to be second to Ramonti before running another one in the BC Mile. I think his effort in the BC Mile was extraordinary coming on the heels of the race at Ascot and I left that race with the impression that he was clearly the best horse in that race but was unlucky. Instead of leaving well enough alone though, his connections also decided to try and squeeze that lemon again. Up the track drubbing. The results of Dylan and Excellent Art were as predictable as the sun rising in the East. Meanwhile, on the flip side, u have Ramonti, Doctor Dino and Darjina. All three of them skipped the BC races to make sure they had something left in the tank. All three of their connections were rewarded with outstanding performances.