REAL HORSE meeting Good For Nothing Turf Sprinters

[blackthroatedwind]

Originally Posted by the_fat_man

I really need to tone is down a bit here. I'm assuming a reasonable intellect level. My bad.

Hard to believe that my intent is so completely MISunderstood. This is not about me TOUTING a horse. Nor is there an inconsistency in my comments. It's in response to a recent claim that turf sprinters are basically USELESS; by someone on this forum. Thus, the original post is from that perspective; the perspective that DIRT horses are superior out of hand.

And here we have a higher quality dirt horse facing good turf sprinters.

That this field is 'good', is MY assessment.

GET IT?

What you're really doing is proving my point.....First Defence has proven that he cannot compete effectively at a high level on the dirt so Frankel is now taking the next step. I know, you can argue First Defence is better than I am saying, and I don't disagree, but in the overall scheme of things he's been a failure.

Now, the BC turf sprint probably facilitated his move to turf sprints, so that's good, but the bottom line is that if he were good enough to succeed in major dirt sprints he wouldn't be in here.