You make the call.. Classic or Mile for Wise Dan?

[PatCummings]

Originally Posted by SteveHaskin

I also want to add about Ghostzapper, you couldn't push his half-brother City Zip past 6 furlongs.

I only mention all this because Wise Dan has so much potential greatness in him. If he didn't, I wouldn't give a hoot where they ran him. Today's game is very different than it used to be. For a fossil like myself, it's time to adapt to the new way of thinking.

Great comments, Steve, and thanks for sharing the perspective. I've been super critical of the Wise Dan campaign mostly because I really believe he could be one of the special ones who can display his versatility on all surfaces and at longer distances, and it frustrates me seeing him limited to the mile grass races.

You hate having to wonder "what could've been" with so many horses whose careers DID end prematurely. Here's one whose career hasn't ended, and is a gelding, and the grit he showed in his Clark win, the dominance in the Ben Ali (with its 117 BSF), and you think he could be so much more...it stinks having to wonder "what could be" when it seems this question won't be answered.