Why Super Frolic matters

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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.

does this mean that you only like the top performers? i like all horses in general, and enjoy a good race run regardless of the horse, his name, or if he's a gr 1 performer...not quite sure what you mean. super frolic was a solid horse, a good runner, who wasn't quite what breeders wanted--which isn't necessarily a bad thing.

and what's with the u? you spell out every word but you. that's kinda weird.