How do you.....

[King Glorious]

Originally Posted by miraja2

Are you:
a) joking
b) intentionally trying to piss me off
c) stoned
or
d) out of your mind?

Why should one person's opinion piss you off? Yours doesn't bother me in the least bit and mine shouldn't bother you. I don't think any of the choices fit. I'm not one that believes that horses should be rated only by what they do at the classic distances. Since something like 75-80% of the races run in this country are sprints and miles, those are important races too. Chris McCarron rode Sunday Silence and he rode against Easy Goer and he was quoted as saying that up to a mile, they wouldn't catch KG. That's not insignificant in my mind. Even so, don't be pissed off. It's only one person's opinion.

My ranking of the five Sightseek asked about would be:
1. Smarty Jones (I thought his best race was the Belmont)
2. Bernardini (showed what people believed was brilliance all year; confirmed it in the BC Classic)
3. Curlin (much the same as Bernardini but I think he needs to be asked more to do things that the others did more naturally, if that makes any sense)
4. Afleet Alex (versatile enough to run 1:09 and change and also win at 12f just three months later)
5. Barbaro (dominated the Derby but his other dirt races weren't anywhere near what the rest of these did on multiple occassions)

[miraja2]

Originally Posted by King Glorious

Why should one person's opinion piss you off? Yours doesn't bother me in the least bit and mine shouldn't bother you. I don't think any of the choices fit. I'm not one that believes that horses should be rated only by what they do at the classic distances. Since something like 75-80% of the races run in this country are sprints and miles, those are important races too. Chris McCarron rode Sunday Silence and he rode against Easy Goer and he was quoted as saying that up to a mile, they wouldn't catch KG. That's not insignificant in my mind. Even so, don't be pissed off. It's only one person's opinion.

My ranking of the five Sightseek asked about would be:
1. Smarty Jones (I thought his best race was the Belmont)
2. Bernardini (showed what people believed was brilliance all year; confirmed it in the BC Classic)
3. Curlin (much the same as Bernardini but I think he needs to be asked more to do things that the others did more naturally, if that makes any sense)
4. Afleet Alex (versatile enough to run 1:09 and change and also win at 12f just three months later)
5. Barbaro (dominated the Derby but his other dirt races weren't anywhere near what the rest of these did on multiple occassions)

I wasn't actually pissed off, just trying for a bit of humor, and if you are implying that I "believe that horses should be rated only by what they do at the classic distances," believe me you are quite mistaken.
You, however, just changed the argument right in the middle. The post of yours I was responding too had nothing at all to do with KG. It said you thought Easy Goer and Sunday Silence were not as good as Smarty Jones and Java Gold. To me, that is just nonsense.
If you can find some way to explain that one to me in a way that makes sense....I'll be shocked.

[blackthroatedwind]

Originally Posted by King Glorious

5. Barbaro (dominated the Derby but his other dirt races weren't anywhere near what the rest of these did on multiple occassions)

I agree. One race doesn't make a career, and while maybe he would have proven best of the lot, based on accomplishment I should have rated him 5th as well.

[Sightseek]

Originally Posted by King Glorious

1. Smarty Jones (I thought his best race was the Belmont)

Me too.