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![]() No one has really brought up the point/question, but BB was a horse with what 6 career starts and racing for the third time in 5 weeks. Add that to the tempertaure and a little adversity (rail, catching a little dirt) which he has never had. The loss in training time due to the foot. Plus racing against fresher (not neccesarly better) horses. Maybe it was just a recipe for disaster. I just don't think Kent did anything wrong.
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Felix Unger talking to Oscar Madison: "Your horse could finish third by 20 lengths and they still pay you? And you have been losing money for all these years?!" |
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![]() Now it starts .... DRF front page Posted 6/9/2008, 5:26 pm
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Wonder who'll be on BB in The Travers now ![]() Not that it matters if he's a "push button horse"
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Felix Unger talking to Oscar Madison: "Your horse could finish third by 20 lengths and they still pay you? And you have been losing money for all these years?!" |
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-3rd start in five weeks for a horse that they said needs time between races. -the quartercrack and loss of training time. -questionable to be at his best for the distance -at least in my mind. -a declining pattern since the Florida derby. -possible problem with the heat -no recent winstrol there were some trouble signs. |
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![]() I probably missed it elsewhere, but assuming he does run again (big if) Kent seems to think they will run twice, Travers then Breeders Cup. I sure was hoping to see him try olders on dirt, but that ain't happening.
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![]() the horse just bounced.... not like it's been done before... nor will be done after.
due to that, there's nothing that Kent could have done to prevented it.... nor anyone else. He'll bouce back the next out, just like any other horse would... let alone a proven champion like Big Brown. It wasn't the horses's fault, nor the jock's.... it's just something that happens in racing. And a proven champion like Big Brown and Kent will come back as the champions that they are. |
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![]() He didn't "bounce."
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Curlin and Hard Spun finish 1,2 in the 2007 BC Classic, demonstrating how competing in all three Triple Crown races ruins a horse for the rest of the year...see avatar photo from REUTERS/Lucas Jackson |
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