Why all the hate for the 3 yr olds???

[NoLuvForPletch]

Originally Posted by JJP

I'm not sure where to start, but you are way off.

I disagree Hard Spun's 2nd in the Haskell is more impressive than Street Sense's Jim Dandy win. Hard Spun was running over a speed favoring Monmouth surface and Any Given Saturday buried him while Street Sense had to overcome a lone speed/slow pace in both his Saratoga races to win. And IMO, Street Sense was more impressive in the KY Cup, given that Hard Spun had the race handed to him on a silver platter as total lone speed, and he still was all out to win. The sea of slop on BC day made much of those results irrelevant.

Any Given Saturday was coming off of a good prep in the Dwyer, while Hard Spun was coming back from his 2 month hiatus after running in ALL 3 TC events, and sat in a perfect spot as Hard Spun and Cable Boy went at it. Any Given Saturday couldn't hold Hard Spun's jock.

Your recollection of the Jim Dandy is strange as CP West went at it with something called Flashstorm through fractions of 23 2/5 and 47. I'd hardly call that lone speed/slow pace. Street Sense beat CP West by 2 hard fought lengths.

Please watch the Kentucky Cup again and tell me what you see because I see them both being asked, but neither ALL OUT. I think Street Sense would have a tough time beating Hard Spun in a match race, he could never keep up.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1pflXyCer9o

I just do not feel there is a big difference between the 2 that one should be in the top 25 (the rail skimming everyone out of my way winner of the Kentucky Derby) and the carve out the fractions, gut it out horse that was raced at distances that didn't give him the optimum chance to win is not.