Why It's Silly To Play Woulda/Coulda/Shoulda

Originally Posted by Pedigree Ann

In his Champagne and Bay Shore runs, Hoist the Flag totally outclassed colts like Jim French, Bold Reason, Good Behaving, etc., who would go on to win and place in races like the Santa Anita Derby, Wood Memorial, Kentucky Derby, Belmont, and Travers. There was talk that if Travers winner Bold Reason won the 10f Woodward over his elders as well, he would have had Horse of the Year and champion 3yo locked up. But he didn't - Cougar II ran away and hid from that field, so Ack Ack got HoY and Canonero II (laid up after the Belmont) got top 3yo. Hoist the Flag had made the cream of his crop look like overmatched allowance horses.

Hey Stupid ...

... Honest Pleasure had an even better record than Hoist The Flag ... through the same stage of their careers ... and he failed consistently thereafter.

How do you know the same wouldn't have happened to Hoist The Flag ... did you get a Coulda/Shoulda/Woulda Decoder Ring in your first box of Animal Crackers?

You know nothing ... so stop wasting server space ... and go back to trying to prove how great the Sir Gallahad line was in the late 1940's and early 1950's.