How do you cope with coming close?

[freddymo]

Originally Posted by ArlJim78

I think you got your story mixed up.

The Lemon Drop Kid horse, Colonial Kid is an Edward Evans homebred and won the race.

The million dollar horse I think you're referring to is Les Antique by Kingmambo who closed for second.

I thought he was referring to the Personal Ensign colt? lol

[freddymo]

I loved First Defence. I thought the horse had a big shot. I wasn't expecting him to hook Commentator, who ran a nice race in defeat. Interesting that Divine Park is a Chester House(Tossaud) and First Defence is out of a Tousaud daughter. I would expect First Defence to be given a shot as a stallion and I think he could be better suited for grass. Perhaps Frankel will switch him over if he can't get a G1 on the dirt with him in the next few months?

[Bobby Fischer]

First Defense is a decent Grade3 7 furlong horse. Racing a mile with a quicker horse like Commentator likely to set wicked fractions, in a grade 2 level race was pretty much an improbable task.
Frankel has done a nice job with him. The first impression of FD was that he was completely lacking any gameness, but it now appears that FD can be game at his level.

[AeWingnut]

Originally Posted by freddymo

I thought he was referring to the Personal Ensign colt? lol

I bet that horse
could you see it's knees buckling the moment my $2 hit.

[skippy3481]

I'm confused your lamenting the fact that you were 4-6.... Tis part of horse racing. I bet a horse to win today and he got second, how do i cope with that... You have to take the wins with the losses, but i don't think that 4-6 is that close. Sure, if you use more horses you could have hit it, but i know from personal experience that most of bets are like that. You can't bet every horse.