Funny Cide

[slotdirt]

West Virginia's a pretty darn good race horse, and he also got waxed in the Empire Classic. I think folks are WAY overreacting on this particular Funny Cide race.

[1st_Saturday_in_May]

Originally Posted by slotdirt

West Virginia's a pretty darn good race horse, and he also got waxed in the Empire Classic. I think folks are WAY overreacting on this particular Funny Cide race.

Thats probably true, but I honestly hate to see a multiple Grade 1 winner, a horse considered by some to be a hero - who introduced many to the game, off the board in a race restricted to NY breds. Nothing against NY-breds but I just hate to see talented horses who have lost 'it'. Funny had a string of something like 14 100+ Beyer efforts snapped last spring and now he's lucky to run a low 90's fig. He was a battler and I'll always remember that JCGC win, but now I just dont see that same fire in his eyes. I saw it in the race against Gold and Roses this spring, but not since then. I just would hate to see him continually slide down the ladder until he's running in allowance races in front of 2,000 degenerages (said in the nicest terms possible because I'm one of them) at Aqueduct on some Thursday afternoon.. Whether he 'likes' running or not, well nobody can know for sure - maybe he's just too professional to give up, but perhaps he would be best served in a pasture somewhere in upstate New York (Or at the KHP) enjoying life as a horse, having little kids feed him sugar cubes and mints and running free (within the confines of a fenced in field, lol).

[Cajungator26]

Originally Posted by 1st_Saturday_in_May

Thats probably true, but I honestly hate to see a multiple Grade 1 winner, a horse considered by some to be a hero - who introduced many to the game, off the board in a race restricted to NY breds. Nothing against NY-breds but I just hate to see talented horses who have lost 'it'. Funny had a string of something like 14 100+ Beyer efforts snapped last spring and now he's lucky to run a low 90's fig. He was a battler and I'll always remember that JCGC win, but now I just dont see that same fire in his eyes. I saw it in the race against Gold and Roses this spring, but not since then. I just would hate to see him continually slide down the ladder until he's running in allowance races in front of 2,000 degenerages (said in the nicest terms possible because I'm one of them) at Aqueduct on some Thursday afternoon.. Whether he 'likes' running or not, well nobody can know for sure - maybe he's just too professional to give up, but perhaps he would be best served in a pasture somewhere in upstate New York (Or at the KHP) enjoying life as a horse, having little kids feed him sugar cubes and mints and running free (within the confines of a fenced in field, lol).

I thought he looked pretty game... it's not like he stopped running. At least he was running at the end (although that apparently means nothing.)

[slotdirt]

What else would you have them do with the horse? It's not like he has a career at stud to look forward to, and he's hardly been overraced in the last couple of years. So long as he's healthy, they need to put him in competitive spots and keep running him. I don't have a problem with him running in the Empire Classic or the Excelsior or any of the other restricted or ungraded races up on the NYRA circuit.