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Originally Posted by Slewbopper
IMO Sunday and Easy can be compared to Affirmed and Alydar. The '89 Preakness is the perfect example. It is similar to the '78 Belmont. The reason Sunday is #31 and Easy is #34 is the will to win. In the Preakness the fact that Day gave him one of many sh/tty rides is of little consequence. Easy could run all day as shown in his Belmont and JCGC wins.. The two were hooked for a 1/4 mile in the Preakness and Sunday just would not him him go by. That is the difference between the two...just like A & A....a greater will to win.
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pat day's ride cost his horse the race plain and simple , he made the move to the top and instead of allowing easy goer to go on and extend his lead he choked the horse back and allowed SS to catch him , if he had just let him go just like turcotte did with secretariat then SS would never have caught him. ending up pinned in down on the rail , day cleary was bested by p val that day , they have a show called trips and traps and if it was around in '89 , the mods would have pointed all of this out to show that SS would be a trap in the belmont , day did everything wrong a rider could do in that race , p val did everything right sure eneough at the belmont sunday silence is left in the dust and beaten handily
take a look at easy goer's stride in the belmont coming down the stretch , then take a look at his stride in the stretch at pimlico , at best easy goer was running at 80% when he was pinned in on the rail
05-28-2010, 01:40 PM
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