Jazil Retired

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Originally Posted by miraja2

True. My point was that I just don't understand what it was about Jazil that you liked so much. As I said, I am not trying to convince you that you are wrong for liking the horse. That wouldn't make any sense. I have liked and followed $10,000 claimers. Usually though, those horses were either horses I liked because of their ability to win, or their ability to win money for me. And I get that it doesn't ALWAYS have to be about winning. I have really enjoyed watching and cheering on Sumwon this year, but that is because I felt I had at least some connection with the people involved with her.
I guess because I never saw anything in Jazil that I liked personally, I am just a little curious about what it was that you did see.

I became a big fan of both Jazil and Corinthian in their early allowance against each other. Jazil disappointed next out but I gave him another chance and cashed on a decent exacta in the Wood when he came flying up at the end. At that point I heard all sorts of garbage about the horse being too slow and not able to hit the top ten in the Derby and I tried pointing out that he could go along at a 24-25 click and would almost certainly plod up to the top five. Sure enough it happened and then I was shocked to see people guaranteeing Jazil would be out of the top three in the Belmont and saying they were tossing him from their tickets. I was sure with his running style and ability to click off the 24-25 fractions he would be on the board. Well unfortunately I doubted his ability to win and instead keyed him in the second and third spots in the tri so didn't cash a ticket on him. Yet I was still thrilled to see him once again outrun his expectations and prove the doubters wrong. So I think I cashed exactly one ticket in my life on Jazil yet I came to respect the horse who showed up and outran his odds in the three biggest races of his life. I still think had he stayed healthy he could have competed at 10 furlongs at least as good as Giacomo could. He was never going to be a factor at 9 but at 10 I think he could have done well. After seeing the horses staggering home in this year's Suburban I don't have much doubt that he could have contended there.