Racing Trivia

Originally Posted by blackthroatedwind

You should be careful about trying to appear sharp about races that took place while you were still in diapers. Holy Bull, and of course the duel cooked him, is one of the few horses that genuinely seemed to displace in the Fountain of Youth ( and may have created a stampede of horsemen using that as a fake excuse in the future ) and as you pointed out, the speed duel never materialized in the Florida Derby, but that race was also contested over a souped up speed track.

I think Ride the Rails was more famous for beating Dehere that day.

Are you saying its a fake excuse used by horseman because you think they lie that it happened, or that displacing is a fake excuse?

[blackthroatedwind]

Originally Posted by oracle80

Are you saying its a fake excuse used by horseman because you think they lie that it happened, or that displacing is a fake excuse?

If you're going to ask me questions, especially ones this foolish, try to make the options less ambiguous.

Originally Posted by blackthroatedwind

If you're going to ask me questions, especially ones this foolish, try to make the options less ambiguous.

Well I certainly agree that I hear far too many trainers blaming displacing these days when the horse appeared to have run its race and just been short.
But in the cases where they do entrap or displace for real, I think its the biggets excuse there is. Horses will run through pain, even great pain, but they can't run a step if they can't breathe.