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![]() I totally disagree. The horse tries to run off in every race. He went the second quarter in 23.3, he tried to get the jump going into the second turn but couldnt open up any ground on the other filly and was passed rather easily. Horses dont have accelarators and brakes. If he lets her run in the first turn, sets fractions much faster than the older horse stake and LA Derby and gets run down and everybody is calling him an idiot. You have to try to get a horse like her to rate if you are going to be successful in the big races at 1 1/8th or further. If they just run off, open up and hold on they will be guaranteed a short career. She set reasonable fractions and was beaten by a better horse who happen to run faster than everybodys Derby horse. She simply is not going to be very effective on honest surfaces further than a mile, especially against the other top fillies.
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![]() i agree with you that she wont be very affect stretching out vs top fillies.
BUT todays race is the point, and if gomez let her go she was gone, might have won for fun, he fought with her, choked her and she came up empty, because of him |
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![]() i do know from years of watching, that teaching a horse to rate is far from an easy task. perhaps they should just understand that this horse has distance limitations due to her running style, and point her accordingly. and after today, maybe they will.
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i think her limit is obviously 1 1/16, if gomez let her go today i am sure she wins for fun. |
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Some of these guys don't get it. This filly was toast in that long stretch no matter what she did. The other horse 'pushes a bigger gear' --simple as that. I didn't notice Gomez overly restraining her and had he gone faster earlier, they'd have been passed that much faster in the stretch. What's everybody watching when it comes to this filly? She's absolutely gutless and wins when she has an overwhelming advantage. I'm sure this isn't a revelation to Baffert or her other connections (with the exception of the owner's son, of course) and they knew they were cooked in either case and tried something a little bit different. I'm all for fairness in racing and the (much) better horse won. It's, thus, all good. |
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![]() If gomez opened her up and let her set sail IB would have lost by an even larger margin. He used the tactics everyone seems to like last time and only held on by a diminishing length to Proud Spell who was coming of the bench.
IB does not seem to be able to run routes with a very even speed distribution. Proud Spell is the better horse period. |
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![]() I was not happy to see her expose herself today. I was hoping she would be undefeated going into the Oaks and would play against her there. Gomez was quite happy with his ride, and infact thought she ran better today than in the Silverbullet Day.
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She ran over the same track and distance as Pyro last time - and was denied the lead by the very speedy Miss Missle through fractions MUCH faster than the stake Pyro ran in - and IB beat Proud Spell that day. Your only arguement is that rating her hard like that might settle her down in future races. I think you know all speed horses aren't the same - and that ride enabled Proud Spell to sit the dreamiest trip she will ever have in her life. She was rating kindly with a target - just off of the rank and hard held Indian Blessing. When a horse's only weapon is their sensational raw speed - and they are an undefeated Multiple Grade 1 winner - you don't try to strangle them and take away there only weapon. It's not like Indian Blessing hasn't already beaten Proud Spell at multiple occasions at this distance. Both horses get overbet off of this race - Indian Blessing gets overbet because she's a sprinter and everyone smart has always known it. Proud Spell gets overbet off of this race because Garret Gomez gave her the trip of a lifetime - and he did it while riding another horse in the race. |
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![]() I told KG a few months back when he was touting her as a Derby horse that she was a runoff. She still is. Sometimes a horse will mature out of it or perhaps with different connections a la Lawyer Ron. You cant just let them fly every time, they wont last very long if you do.
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![]() she came up short.. thats about it. if she had rated and drew off..we wouldnt have this conversation.. is the fight on yet?
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The question is not who the better horse is - even though Indian Blessing still owns a 2-to-1 head-to-head record over Proud Spell at the distance - obviously PS is the horse you want going forward. However, Indian Blessing doesn't lose a match race scenerio to her if ridden correctly. |
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why are ppl not going crazy over this ignorant comment ??? the way they do when other ppl post something ignorant ? proud spell will never accomplish what indian blessing already has in her career. she is a breeders cup winner and a champion. i love proud spell but i doubt she will ever have the credentials that indian blessing has |
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If Indian Blessing rates in hand - instead of being strangled - she'd have gone faster - BUT, so would Proud Spell...the rider would have to use her to keep her in a stalking position. There is no way Indian Blessing would have a 5 length lead in that race unless she was put to a drive....using her speed takes PS out of her dream trip and forces her to chace and finish. I know you defended Gomez's strangling rides on Hard Spun in the Belmont and his ride on Dream Rush that day to a lesser extent - who won back to back Grade 1's for Coa in her next two. |
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![]() dont re think anything you are correct and so am i.
gomez strangles to many horses, hard spun in the belmont is classic example... look what he went on to do after the belmont... being by danzig if gomez sends him i dont think curlin or the filly rags to riches would have cought him. |