Circular Quay

[Scurlogue Champ]

Originally Posted by blackthroatedwind

I don't agree that he had " plenty of run left in him " but we can certainly agree to disagree. I feel highly confident he ran as fast as he could have TODAY.

I am not asking you to be " impressed ", but I offer those comparisons as the fairest way to gauge his effort against the other races today. I have no problem with you judging him visually, and respect that, but it is certainly not the only way a horse should be judged. Relative time is important...at least to me.

I think he did have plenty of run left in him, and I was standing about 50 feet from him between the finish and the 1/16th pole.

Crowning him as some sort of champion is out of line, but the little guy ran good and beat the ones who mattered today. He seemed to still be a handful after the race, as he was the first to return back and Bejarano was yelling at him the entire time to basically calm down. That little ****er was ready to run again, regardless of how many tenths of a second he was off the 15K claimers.