I really do wish DC had gone a tick quicker and set a NTR. Why not? I certainly do understand raw times are just that, raw, but still think he ran a super race and looked capable of just a bit more. Thing is, if he had beaten the mark, folks would be all over him as having set a phony track record and that's not right. I'm sure the track was fast for Easy Goer and expect it was also the day Congaree went 133 flat. I don't think DC has done enough to be called a great horse, much less a very good one and wouldn't even if he'd gone faster.
But what he has done, that's kind of getting lost, is that he has made the round-trip from US-->> Dubai-->> US very successfully. It will be very impressive if he can do it again.
What's also lost here is the great job Surroor did with him. I don't think this is the soundest horse ever seen, yet every time he shows up for a race, he looks fantastic.
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11-27-2006, 01:09 PM
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