Point Given

[PatCummings]

Originally Posted by Calzone Lord

Point Given was a monster 3yo and dominated a deep and talented 3yo divison. He had a tremendously impressive Preakness, Belmont, Haskell, and Travers sweep in his final 4 starts.

Gio Ponti was a good, consistant, healthy top class American turf horse for a couple of years. Built a very nice resume in our turf races -- but turf racing is an afterthought in this country.

First - I question the credentials of many of the horses Point Given defeated in his wins (against some small fields). Wins might've been impressive, but shouldn't you at least face open competition before you're crowned a HoFer, barring a Triple Crown sweep?

Second - because he did it on turf, it doesn't count as much?

Gio Ponti is everything we don't have enough of in this sport...wins over five seasons, always showed up (never beaten more than 4 lengths in his 17 losses, 2.5 lengths or less in 16 of them)...