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Originally Posted by King Glorious
I'm sorry that u are saddened by his death but I don't think u are at all correct here. We've come to expect the second level horses to stick around for years and years and race much more often than the good horses. We see the Wilko's, the Sun King's, the Super Frolic's hang around and compete all the time. This horse doesn't represent anything that I love about the sport. What most of us "doom-sayers" as u call us want to see is a time when the good horses stick around and race more than 5-6 times a year and don't take two month layoffs between races. Sure, they never ducked competition with him but that's because he was no competition. Would they have taken the same kinds of risks with him had he been good enough to be winning some of those big races he was running in? Who knows? But I can't help but believe that he was only sticking around because he was fairly competitive on the lower levels and could earn some money (nothing wrong with that at all) and because as Sniper said, he wasn't a strong breeding prospect.
But to say that he represents everything we say doesn't exist anymore is flat out wrong. We know it exists at the lower levels. We just want to see it exist again at the upper levels. Super Frolic isn't an upper level horse.
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There are so many things I could say in reference to the above posted nonsense, but I'll keep my mouth shut.
RIP to Super Frolic. I'm sorry that he didn't make it.
09-17-2007, 03:02 PM
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