A question on Easy Goer...

[hoovesupsideyourhead]

so btw when people say super horse or alltime great..a more seasoned player like yourself rolls eyes...and gets up from the key board in disgust..very understandable....

[Danzig]

dr fagers one turf race would rank right up there with personal ensigns run in the distaff. he was slipping and sliding all over the grass, absolutely detested the surface. but everyone time a horse took a run at him, he'd pin his ears and turn them back.
won for top turf horse that year. on one race.

Originally Posted by hoovesupsideyourhead

so when people say super horse or alltime great..a more seasoned player like yourself rolls eyes...and gets up from the key board in disgust..very understandable....

No different probably than guys who rolled there eyes at me who saw Sec, Bid, Affirmed, Alydar, Dr Fager, Buckpasser, etc when i talked like I did about the horses I saw in the 80's and 90's.
That was the point I was making Hooves. Not that anyone is smarter than anyone, just that whats great now wasn't great back then. And the older you are, the more you probably roll your eyes these days.
The horses we just talked about in the 80's and 90's, the guys older than me are gonna say they weren't Affirmed or Bid or Sec or Alydar or fager.
I guess the quality overall has slipped(I've blamed the adventof the BC a million times on here and firmly believe its detroyed and is destroying the game), and even i was a little taken aback at the figs that were posted. It jogged some memories.

[MLC]

Originally Posted by oracle80

No different probably than guys who rolled there eyes at me who saw Sec, Bid, Affirmed, Alydar, Dr Fager, Buckpasser, etc when i talked like I did about the horses I saw in the 80's and 90's.
That was the point I was making Hooves. Not that anyone is smarter than anyone, just that whats great now wasn't great back then. And the older you are, the more you probably roll your eyes these days.
The horses we just talked about in the 80's and 90's, the guys older than me are gonna say they weren't Affirmed or Bid or Sec or Alydar or fager.
I guess the quality overall has slipped(I've blamed the adventof the BC a million times on here and firmly believe its detroyed and is destroying the game), and even i was a little taken aback at the figs that were posted. It jogged some memories.

I don't think that the quality overall has slipped. It's just that the way horses are raced nowadays prohibits a good horse from being tested many times against other good horses.

[MLC]

Originally Posted by hoovesupsideyourhead

so when people say super horse or alltime great..a more seasoned player like yourself rolls eyes...and gets up from the key board in disgust..very understandable....

Maybe I'm just getting old and losing some patience, but it does seem that the thoughts that some people expressed was more than just the usual excitement that is generated when a good horse runs. I hope that the lessons learned from this summer will be remembered. However, I confess that I was extremely enthusiastic about Barbaro.

[Danzig]

Originally Posted by MLC

Maybe I'm just getting old and losing some patience, but it does seem that the thoughts that some people expressed was more than just the usual excitement that is generated when a good horse runs. I hope that the lessons learned from this summer will be remembered. However, I confess that I was extremely enthusiastic about Barbaro.

so many WANT another great horse so bad. that's a big part of it. another part of it is huge egos. everyone wants to claim to be the one who got the scoop on said superhorse. so any above average effort is trumpeted as the warning shot fired by the next super horse.
and then some of us who call for patience are heckled and jeered for being sticks in the mud.


and i'm a confirmed eye roller. absolutely. if they certified stuff like that, i'd have that certificate framed and proudly displayed.

[MLC]

Originally Posted by Danzig188

so many WANT another great horse so bad. that's a big part of it. another part of it is huge egos. everyone wants to claim to be the one who got the scoop on said superhorse. so any above average effort is trumpeted as the warning shot fired by the next super horse.
and then some of us who call for patience are heckled and jeered for being sticks in the mud.


and i'm a confirmed eye roller. absolutely. if they certified stuff like that, i'd have that certificate framed and proudly displayed.

Maybe we should make a certificate up. It definately would be up on my wall. Heck, I may be awarded many times.

[Danzig]

Originally Posted by MLC

Maybe we should make a certificate up. It definately would be up on my wall. Heck, I may be awarded many times.

i'd have to display it with my 'teeth gritting' trophy.