Sun King

[blackthroatedwind]

Originally Posted by POINTGIVEN1985

ok i guess i understand what your saying black... but i have seen alot of races, and i just dont think he got that bad of a trip, why is that a bad thing for me to think that ? i was there live that day and have watched the race 10 times, maybe you can explain to me why the trip was so bad, and help me understand.

It's been explained in this thread.

He made an extremely premature move into a very contentious pace. This is not only hard to sustain but also against his style of running. He simply ran harder, for longer, and faster, than everybody else in the race. Sun King, who may be my personal favorite horse of all time, was the major beneficiary of this set up, and yet still couldn't beat him.

As an example, I bet Premium Tap when he won the Woodford for the simple reason that he too raced close to that pace in the Whitney, and still managed to finish at least reasonably close ( and he lost by 7 1/2 lengths ). If I thought he ran well you can only imagine how well I must think Invasor ran.

And, by the way, you can call me Andy. Blackthroatedwind is a song.