Commentator is back

[blackthroatedwind]

Originally Posted by ateamstupid

You're telling me he can run with Henny Hughes, Too Much Bling, Lost in the Fog, Anew and the rest of them for six furlongs? I don't think so. There's a reason he's never been shorter than seven furlongs and a reason they keep trying to stretch him out. He's not a six-furlong horse.

First of all, if the Commentator of last year was lining up against the four horses you just named the only one who MIGHT be a shorter price is Lost in the Fog. I suggest you take a serious look at his pps as from what you are posting it doesn't feel like you have really looked at them.

He didn't run in the BC Sprint in 2004 because he had just started racing and he didn't race in it last year because he was hurt. They do not " keep trying to stretch him out ". They stretched him out for the Donn for the first time and he subsequently came up with an injury. When Nick asked me my opinion about whether or not he should run him in the Whitney last year ( I only mention this because he thanked me in the winner's circle after the race both to the press and ESPN ) I pointed out that they didn't know if he could stretch effectively because it wasn't clear if he was injured in the Donn and he didn't exactly embarrass himself that day in light of the lightning fast pace he set. Therefore, it seemed like as good a time as any to find out, especially because there was really only one genuinely good horse to beat.