Silver Train

[JJP]

Originally Posted by Betsy

I agree, and I'm a Silver Train fan. I loved Old Trieste and he did well in his too brief career at stud; his most promising colt, Venetian Sunset, broke down, so I'm glad ST will be around to carry on his legacy. That being said, I think it's pretty pathetic that the horse will very likely skip the BC Sprint because he can't run well outside of Belmont. That is not the mark of a champion to me. Now, one of my favorite horses, Slew o'Gold, could never win outside NY, and that bothers me still a bit. At least he won on different tracks. Silver Train is talented - he couldn't do what he's done at Belmont without having any natural ability as a track can only carry a horse so far - but he's very limited.

Slew O Gold never got his just due, IMO. He didn't really come around til the Belmont of his 3YO year. The only non-NY track after that I can remember him running at was Hol in the 1984 BC Classic, in which he was narrowly beaten while running on a bad foot.