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Originally Posted by Merlinsky
Has logic consistently been applied by Jess Jackson to his decisions or, heck, his sentence construction? Did I miss something? He wanted that earnings record with Curlin once it came within reach and why wouldn't anybody? Protecting his interests in RA & Curlin at the same time ain't unreasonable. Just because you wouldn't do it, doesn't mean it wouldn't be done by Jess Jackson. It'd be bad enough to lose to Z, worse to watch her then eclipse Curlin's $$ record on top of everything, which she'd eventually do. Earnings records have mattered for years. It mattered with Citation.
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Let's be clear, I made a general statement that
anybody that would campaign their top class horses with those things (ie money records, unbeaten streaks) in mind is making a mistake. Now, did I disagree with you and say Jess Jackson wouldn't do it?
Nope.
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As for unbeaten records, uh yeah that matters too. Just ask the folks with Pepper's Pride. There's gonna be a Tiznow-Pepper's Pride young'un this year because of it (probably is already, she was bred last March).
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Yeah, they wouldn't have had a shot to breed her to Tiznow if she only won 18 out of 19.
Pepper's Pride lost the Tiznow foal in November according to the DRF, by the way.
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The racing media sure reported on it like it was a thing to be impressed by.
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Well, that settles that.
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The Mosses didn't exactly throw caution to the wind all of last year.
Z's campaign up to the Classic was relatively conservative. They sure seemed to care at least a bit about her unbeaten record, unless I missed something.
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That's the whole point of my post, if you had actually bothered to read it for the actual content, rather than coming to the ridiculous conclusion that I must be blasting you because I didn't blindly agree with what you posted.
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Farms promote stallions like Seattle Slew and Smarty Jones as having done big things on the TC trail while unbeaten. It comes up virtually every time some talks about Personal Ensign. But yeah, who cares?
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The point was that altering a horse's campaign for a money record or an unbeaten career is a foolish enterprise, that IMO, takes away from the horse's legacy. Did Seattle Slew or Smarty Jones skip the Belmont and point for the Ohio Derby to preserve their unbeaten streaks?
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As for RA fans v. Zenyatta fans. Sorry folks, I consider myself a supporter of both horses. This ain't either/or. Calm down.
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Clearly not a supporter of literacy, however. I like how you tell everyone else to "calm down" when you completely lost your wad reacting (and misinterpreting) to a single sentence.