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Old 10-08-2007, 04:29 PM
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Miesque's Approval and Purim is a bad comparison. Miesque's Approval was a multiple graded stakes winner in '06, he had beaten the previous year's BC Mile champion and had only lost in the Shadwell and against English Channel early in the year at Gulfstream. He had every right to be in the BC Mile.

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This is strictly from memory, so don't shoot me if I am wrong, but didn't Miesque's Approval lose while available for a tag at Saratoga earlier that year? I know for sure he ran and lost in a claiming race at Saratoga, because I bet him, but I am unsure if it was '05 or '06.

Regardless, the WAYI concept is a marketing ploy as everyone associated with the idea will tell you flat out. It is nothing more than that so why is everyone getting so worked up over it? Don't the majority of these horses that win these late season races leading up to the Cup end up in the race regardless? How many of the WAYI horses would not be going without the automatic berth?
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Old 10-08-2007, 09:46 PM
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Why don't they move the date of this thing up by one month.Seems like the weather(in general) is much better in late September/early October.
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Old 10-08-2007, 08:59 PM
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It was '05.
It was starting to feel that way the more I thought about it because he was still with Mott at that point, right?

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