Black Caviar at Royal Ascot Saturday AM

[pmayjr]

Originally Posted by Riot

Guess you did. Where he sat still after Caviar was in front of the four closest challenging horses by a length. She looked clear to me, too, at that point, yet the good outside closing horse got it's feet and put in another acceleration. Beautiful performance by this closing horse, too! Nolen beat off that second challenge.

Good race!

I actually thought the 3rd place horse might've had the best chance if the jockey gave him a clear room more soon than he did. He kept the horse in-pack while the 2nd place horse shifted towards the rail a lot sooner and got a much clearer run.

[Riot]

Originally Posted by pmayjr

I actually thought the 3rd place horse might've had the best chance if the jockey gave him a clear room more soon than he did. He kept the horse in-pack while the 2nd place horse shifted towards the rail a lot sooner and got a much clearer run.

Yeah, good point. No saying this mare was not tested here.

Look at it this way ... Nolen got ahead of them, then gave them four strides to catch up again, then beat them again What a great race horse.

[Danzig]

Hope all is well with the mare. As for her and frankel....can someone prevail upon the bc folks to get rid of some of the lame, ridiculous races and throw that purse money into the races that would draw top int'l stars? Quality over quantity!!

Enjoyed black caviar, hope nothing serious is amiss.

[King Glorious]

I often find it interesting the way people see the same event different depending on what your position was going into it. I will say that I didn't want her to win for reasons that I've stated before that are admittedly, kind of dumb. I won't say I over or underestimated her because I wanted to reserve judgement until I saw her against better competition. I credit her for getting the job done, especially if she did it while injuring herself. I think she proved herself as a legit racehorse to those of us that had our doubts as to her ability. I don't think that she proved herself to be one of the two best horses in the world and I don't even think top 5-10 is accurate. I didn't think it was the jockey error that almost got her beat either. It was so quick that I really doubt it cost her. I don't think she even had time to process his relaxing and starting back up so fast. I don't think it's even possible for her reaction time to be that quick.