Why all the hate for the 3 yr olds???

[King Glorious]

Originally Posted by wac

People on here no a lot more about racing then i so i'll ask why is there so much hate for the 3yr old crop this year? Outside of War Pass and Pyro it seems like most on here think every other horse sux. I think we were spoiled last year with SS, Hard Spun, Curlin etc but i "think" its a little early to say that all of these horses suck and aren't competitive. Is it b/c the beyers are low? The races they have had were crappy? B/c War Pass ran off and hid from everyone last year and made so many of them look foolish?I just think its early to say this horse sucks that horse sucks, maybe we haven't seen the best out of a lot of these horses. I just think that there are some horses that are going to improve with some races under there belt. I guess we will see.

I don't like them because they do suck. I wasn't spoiled by last year either. I thought they sucked last year too. Curlin was great. Hard Spun, and Street Sense were good.....but not nearly as good as people made them out to be. They seemed better because the older horses were as pathetic a group as ever seen in that division.

This year's group is looking below par. That's not to say that they can't be competitive. But you can find a $5k claimer at Yavapai that's competitive. Don't confuse exciting racing with good racing. This is also not to say that some can't emerge and turn into something really good. But at this point, it's not looking too promising.