[dalakhani]

Originally Posted by oracle80

Another member of the "Horses are machines who should always run their best race with no regards to the circumstances" club. These folks can't be reasoned with or taught anything.

Perhaps you should look up his worktab for the mile and a quarter Travers against two very good and sharp horses at the time.
he had four slow breezes. I know what he had, I saw them all in person.
Horse wasn't really ready to run in anything except an allowance race.
What he did that day will always be appreciated by folks in the game.
After that Travers was over, the folks i watched it with, one a trainer and another an owner both screamed as I did, WHAT A FREAK!!!! And noone was talking about Flower Alley. I'm not gonna name drop about who i watched it with, doesnt really matter exactly who they are, but these were players who had no affiliation with either Bellamy or Nick. One of em flat out dislikes Nick to be honest.
But after the race noone I was with could believe what he had done. Which was to set a very fast pressured pace in a mile and a quarter race off a layoff with only 4 slow breezes. And he actually fought back at Flower when passed and galloped out ahead of him immediately after the wire. It was something i will never forget, seeing him take off after Flower even after the wire and pass him.
If you couldnt appreciate that effort and its greatness, then you won't ever be able to appreciate any effort in its full perspective.

since when is the Travers run BEFORE the Wood? LOL