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Originally Posted by DaHoss9698
I know you're right. I see it more as some people on here just like hating on horses. Nothing is ever good enough, but I should have seen this coming. Again I ask, where would you like him to run, but never mind, I can see this going nowhere.
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Shoot, I'm not hating on him at all. That little horse has done what he is supposed to like clockwork and I believe he is a really good 3 year old, the best we have right now.
What I was alluding to is the exclamations of greatness that are automatically thrown on this little guy's shoulders.
How can he possibly live up to people already crowning him as the likely winner of the JCGC, Travers, BCC, and HOTY?
Wouldn't you veer towards caution when dealing with the talent of three year old colts without much battle experience?
It is unfair to the horse to make him out to be some amazing talent that just sprouted up out of the ground just because he won two races over suspect competition.
When a horse wins like he did on Saturday, that doesn't tell me they are great. It tells me that there wasn't anything there to test him, and I'll give him credit for doing what he was supposed to do. If it happens that there isn't anything to test him for the rest of his career, then so be it. And if he does that number on the rest of the fields he faces, then he might just be great. But let us see what happens.
Let me ask you this, are you quick to give the label of greatness to a horse like Suave with his run in the Washington Park HCP on Saturday. He basically did the same thing to that field and broke the record to boot. Beating a multi-millionare and multiple Grade 1 winner in the process.
Is Suave great, and going to go the rest of the season undefeated and win HOTY off of his waltz around Arlington Park?