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03-19-2011, 08:48 PM
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Since they've been published in '91 anyway.
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03-19-2011, 09:02 PM
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03-19-2011, 10:19 PM
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and yet .... this laughable slowpoke was named Horse of the Year that year... 
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03-19-2011, 11:09 PM
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Yeah, but wasn't Skip Away something like 4 of 11 that year?
It's hard to give HOY to a horse that didn't even win half of its starts.
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03-19-2011, 11:31 PM
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He finished the year with 8 figures of 115-to-125 in a row. He won the Breeders Cup Classic "handily" by 6 lengths with a 120 Beyer at Hollywood Park ... in spite of Mike Smith making a crazy pre-mature move on the 1st turn. Why punish a horse for a win/loss record - when those defeats are supreme performances against outstanding competition? Uncle Mo had a thousand times better case for Horse of the Year over Zenyatta - than Favorite Trick did over Skip Away.
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03-21-2011, 03:16 AM
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The real horses of the year (1986-2020) Manila, Java Gold, Alysheba, Sunday Silence, Go for Wand, In Excess, Paseana, Kotashaan, Holy Bull, Cigar, Alphabet Soup, Formal Gold, Skip Away, Artax, Tiznow, Point Given, Azeri, Candy Ride, Smarty Jones, Ghostzapper, Invasor, Curlin, Zenyatta, Zenyatta, Goldikova, Havre de Grace, Wise Dan, Wise Dan, California Chrome, American Pharoah, Arrogate, Gun Runner, Accelerate, Maximum Security, Gamine
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03-21-2011, 09:00 AM
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03-21-2011, 09:12 AM
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Many of us are still waiting for your response to your idiotic suggestion that horses with high debut Beyers ( you made your usual inane comment concerning Bind ) went on to do very little during their careers. Well, five of the 20 in the last 19 years to return won Grade 1 races ( seven races in total ). 13 of those 20 ran 1-2-3 in Grade 1 races and 13 of the 20 won Graded Stakes. Why don't you respond when your idiocy is exposed instead of making one useless hit and run post after another? I know, like you, that Formal Gold was 0 for 3 in 1 1/4 races. I also know he ran 106, 108 and 115 speed figures in losing three races he wasn't favored in, and was over 20:1 in one of them. But, you think you're clever with your snide little comment. Guess what? You aren't.
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Just more nebulous nonsense from BBB Last edited by Kasept : 03-21-2011 at 09:39 AM.
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03-21-2011, 10:43 AM
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Every time I see a fast debut Beyer, I think "well, that's no Formal Gold." I guess I'll be thinking "wow, that's no Maclean's Music" from now on.
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The world's foremost expert on virtually everything on the Redskins 2010 season: "Im going to go out on a limb here. I say they make the playoffs."
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03-21-2011, 11:13 AM
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Of course, they'll probably shoot themselves in the foot right off the bat by foregoing the most important step in Formal Gold's ascent to the big leagues...running through his allowance conditions first. A few years ago, Earl Mack had another Formal Gold-wannabe named Grand Hombre, who won his first 4 races, all with triple digit Beyers. He, too, was run through his allowance conditions before tackling stakes horses. The only mistake Mack (and trainer Dennis Manning) made with the horse was that they sold him to Godolphin after his Pennsylvania Derby romp. Of course, he never won again...and in fact, is still filling fields to this day in Dubai during the Carnival as an 11 year old.
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Just more nebulous nonsense from BBB
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03-19-2011, 09:01 PM
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What was with all the jockey changes on Formal Gold?
I suppose some of it had to do with all the jock changes on Skip Away.
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