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![]() You guys are nuts with the Candy Rides and Ghostzapper comparisons.
If Formal Gold and Skip Away were treated like glass figurines like them and given 3 months in between races, they would have run even better. |
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The feast version of FG could thump Cigar or Skip Away on an avg day. |
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One had stretches where he wasn't a monster scattered in between sheer brilliance... the other never was beaten. It's a tough question to answer because it really boils down to what you value in a horse. Some people probably don't know that Formal Gold won his debut by 19 lengths with a record debut Beyer of 112. Some people probably don't know that FG was only a pace factor in that Dubai World Cup race won by the globetrotting turf horse Singspeil off of a layoff. There was a great FG and an ordinary FG. |
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When is the last time you've seen a horse run a 126 and lose?! Apparently this was all before the bounce theory too.. |
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Ghostzapper did trounce Pleasantly Perfect. Now weather that was the same version that owned Medaglia d'Oro is a different debate. |
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Rock Hard Ten would have been butt-hurt by Saint Liam in the 2005 BC Classic. I only wish he had run so that the hysteria with him could stop. By far and away one of the most overrated horses in the last ten years. NT |
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I thought PP ran a spectacular 3rd in the BC Classic behind Ghostzapper and Roses in May. GZ and RIM basically had it very soft up front .. RIM especially ... but both made good of the sweet trips and ran wicked fast. PP got crushed margin wise ... but he had to make his wide closing move into the teeth of a race shape that was not so fast early on and extremely fast late. I was more impressed with PP's 3rd place finish - than his BC Classic win when he and Dynever got a great pace setup. IMO, MDO ran the best race in that Classic ... and Congaree finishing 4th was arguably as good as PP that day. |
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That horse was pretty real. Had he and Medaglia D' Oro switched trips in the Pacific Classic - and he was the one allowed to make his own pace real nice - I think you could call Candy Ride into question a little bit... as kind of a decorated South American turf horse - who got his one giant number with a candy trip. That's not what happened though. But yeah - a case can be made that the equally fragile Mazel Trick was a better dirt horse because he had two supreme dirt races instead of one. And who, other than me, ever talks about Mazel Trick? |
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You mean besides me? I don't think most people here ever even saw that horse run. |