ATR Hall of Fame Debate: Gio Ponti?

[Indian Charlie]

Originally Posted by OldDog

I only attached this to the HOF thread in order to not start a new Gio thread. Other than what I quoted above, what I was taking more to the point of the article was



A lot of time is spent talking about the durability of the thoroughbred. Here is a horse (not a gelding) competing consistently for years in Grade 1 company, and doing damn well at it, while we spend hours discussing horses who head for the shed with a dozen or fewer starts. It's easy for owners to say, "We love racing." But show me more than a few today who run a horse this long in G1 races. I take my hat off to Shane Ryan, and Christophe Clement, and win or lose Saturday, to Gio Ponti.

Had he a more fashionable pedigree, and/or won a couple of those BC races he's been in, he'd have been standing stud well before next year.

[blackthroatedwind]

Originally Posted by Indian Charlie

Had he a more fashionable pedigree, and/or won a couple of those BC races he's been in, he'd have been standing stud well before next year.

I think we both need to remember how lopsided the vote is in this thread. It puts things in a more proper perspective.

[Indian Charlie]

Originally Posted by blackthroatedwind

I think we both need to remember how lopsided the vote is in this thread. It puts things in a more proper perspective.

It's pretty silly really, but I think I can at least explain away the poll results on the belief that most of the members of this board don't go back twenty, thirty or in your case, almost forty years (in racing), so they are incapable of having a more proper perspective.

[Antitrust32]

Originally Posted by blackthroatedwind

I think we both need to remember how lopsided the vote is in this thread. It puts things in a more proper perspective.

spot on