The "It's way too early to do this so let's do it anyway!" prediction game thread

[King Glorious]

Originally Posted by Calzone Lord

The difference between Ghostzapper and Candy Ride is Candy Ride had just one race like that - Ghostzapper had several.

Candy Ride had three really good races here, including easily handling a grade one turf winner on the grass.

[NTamm1215]

Originally Posted by King Glorious

Candy Ride had three really good races here, including easily handling a grade one turf winner on the grass.

His dirt win over Primerica and Bonus Pay Day in an allowance race? The American Handicap was a GII and was a strong race. However, to say that either of his prior wins compared to his Pacific Classic is not accurate. It was the PC that has made him an internet sensation for the last 8 years.

His Pacific Classic was along the same lines as Ghostzapper's Iselin, BC Classic, and Met Mile. That's why Doug said Candy Ride had one and Ghostzapper had multiple sensational performances and I think he's absolutely right.

[King Glorious]

Originally Posted by Calzone Lord

The difference between Ghostzapper and Candy Ride is Candy Ride had just one race like that - Ghostzapper had several.

Originally Posted by NTamm1215

His dirt win over Primerica and Bonus Pay Day in an allowance race? The American Handicap was a GII and was a strong race. However, to say that either of his prior wins compared to his Pacific Classic is not accurate. It was the PC that has made him an internet sensation for the last 8 years.

His Pacific Classic was along the same lines as Ghostzapper's Iselin, BC Classic, and Met Mile. That's why Doug said Candy Ride had one and Ghostzapper had multiple sensational performances and I think he's absolutely right.

I don't believe I put the other two on a par with the Pacific Classic. I just thought it wasn't fair to say he had one good one either. I also thought that his single best performance was the best of anyone else's single best performance in at least the last decade.

[King Glorious]

I also thought GZs Vosburgh was the performance that wowed me the most. I think its all not worth arguing though. Both were exceptional horses and I have no proof to dispute anyone that believes GZ was better because he just may have been. Neither of them was Lammtarra though lol.

[smuthg]

I think I recall seeing an interview with Tom Durkin where he said he went and measured 31 lengths the day before Smarty's Belmont just in case... in hindsight that is about as foolish of statement/action as one could make, but at the time, I think a lot of people thought (or hoped) that Smarty could put on a show of the nature of Secretariat's Belmont...

[Indian Charlie]

wow.

i didn't know anyone at that time that thought of SJ as being some sort of superstar.

[slotdirt]

Originally Posted by Indian Charlie

wow.

i didn't know anyone at that time that thought of SJ as being some sort of superstar.

You must not have lived within 500 miles of Philadelphia for five weeks in 2004 then.

That Belmont crowd was pretty insane.

[King Glorious]

Indian Charlie, are you serious? You didn't know ANYONE that thought of him as a superstar? That Belmont drew over 120k.