Discreet and the Cigar - Page 2

randallscott35 · #21 11-25-2006, 02:56 PM

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Discreet/Badge Exacta. 200 times. Won't pay worth a damn but that's it for me.

Simply put, the best horse in the nation. hand ride.

randallscott35 · #22 11-25-2006, 02:57 PM

132:46. I love this horse.

hoovesupsideyourhead · #23 11-25-2006, 02:58 PM

glad you hit it rand...

randallscott35 · #24 11-25-2006, 02:59 PM

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glad you hit it rand...

Hey 8.40 is better than a sharp stick in the eye. Lol.

Gauchos0522 · #25 11-25-2006, 02:59 PM

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Simply put, the best horse in the nation. hand ride.

He made 2 very good older horses who ran very good races look mediocre. He friggin equaled the track record under a damn hand ride. Best horse in the nation no doubts anymore.

ateamstupid · #26 11-25-2006, 02:59 PM

Gomez was confident as hell even with Silver Train ahead at the rail and Badge of Silver on the outside coming to him. Still never hit him and didn't ask him until real late.

Gotta see him go two turns in America.. DC vs. Invasor.. I'm drooling.

randallscott35 · #27 11-25-2006, 03:00 PM

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Gomez was confident as hell even with Silver Train ahead at the rail and Badge of Silver on the outside coming to him. Still never hit him and didn't ask him until real late.

Gotta see him go two turns in America.. DC vs. Invasor.. I'm drooling.

I couldn't agree more. Have you ever seen a jock that confident after his horse went 1:07 for 6 furlongs. OMG.

sumitas · #28 11-25-2006, 03:01 PM

equalled the track record by Easygoer and they turned 3/4 in 1:07 and change...now that was an eye popper.

KirisClown · #29 11-25-2006, 03:02 PM

Amazing final time... Prior to today I wasnt totally convinced, but after seeing that, how could anyone not be.

hoovesupsideyourhead · #30 11-25-2006, 03:05 PM

super horse.....agreed its a man law...

sumitas · #31 11-25-2006, 03:09 PM

at the 3/4 Silver Train actually had the lead by a head...amazing race and Silver Train and BOS came up huge only to lose...SH looked demoralized after he lost the lead. This race will not hurt ST or BOS at stud.

#32 11-25-2006, 04:17 PM

Well that was impressive. Discreet is on his way back to Dubai. Who knows if we will ever see him again in the US. Invasor is heading to the Donn so that is good.

The connections of Sharp Humor are plain stupid. This horse is contantly in the wrong spots. They should be ashamed.

ArlJim78 · #33 11-25-2006, 04:21 PM

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I couldn't agree more. Have you ever seen a jock that confident after his horse went 1:07 for 6 furlongs. OMG.

No I haven't. He was sitting confident and chilly through truly mindnumbing fractions. When I saw how the initial stages of the race set up I thought that this could be the day he gets caught because BOS was laying back while ST took it to him. That was a great performance.

KirisClown · #34 11-25-2006, 04:53 PM

For anyone who missed the race.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_4tZHFYf0U

Cannon Shell · #35 11-25-2006, 04:55 PM

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While his performance today was brutal, maybe something was awry, we don't know yet. Realistically, after the bang up second off the layoff, I don't think him being in this race was that outlandish. I'll give you the Derby, he probably shoiuldn't have been in it, but the owner bred him, so I can see wanting to be in the Derby. "Constantly in the wrong spots" seems a little off.

i agree this was a little steep but if we knock guys for trying then how can we knock the winners by saying they beat nothing?

#36 11-25-2006, 05:17 PM

I have never complained about a horse never beatin anyone. I always maintain the position that a horse can only beat who enteres into the race. But the connections of Sharp Humor should know their horse is not a Grade I horse (right now). And this spot they had to have known they had NO shot against the top 3. Sometimes it is worthy to try and sometimes it is plain stupid to try. In this case, it was plain stupid. Maybe I am being harsh, but I think they keep looking back at their close 2nd to Barbaro and feel they have something here--imo, they dont.

King Glorious · #37 11-25-2006, 06:09 PM

Does anyone know when they started timing races in the hundredths at Aqueduct? The reason I ask is because I am thinking that when Easy Goer ran his 1:32 2/5, they were still timing in 5ths and they just gave him the fastest possible time when saying that he ran 1:32.40 If they were still timing in 5ths at the time, then EG's actual time was anywhere between 1:32.40 and 1:32.59 which means that with with his 1:32.46, there is an above average chance that Discreet Cat actually broke EG's mark even though he won't get credit for even equalling it. Yes, I know that they are saying that he equalled the record, and by 5ths he did. I was looking at Equibase though and they listed the record at 1:32.40 so DC won't get credited for equalling the record.

ArlJim78 · #38 11-25-2006, 06:18 PM

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Does anyone know when they started timing races in the hundredths at Aqueduct? The reason I ask is because I am thinking that when Easy Goer ran his 1:32 2/5, they were still timing in 5ths and they just gave him the fastest possible time when saying that he ran 1:32.40 If they were still timing in 5ths at the time, then EG's actual time was anywhere between 1:32.40 and 1:32.59 which means that with with his 1:32.46, there is an above average chance that Discreet Cat actually broke EG's mark even though he won't get credit for even equalling it. Yes, I know that they are saying that he equalled the record, and by 5ths he did. I was looking at Equibase though and they listed the record at 1:32.40 so DC won't get credited for equalling the record.

I'd recommend having a couple of beers and forgetting about it. I can't see where this makes any difference splitting hairs like this. Did you have some big future wager on whether or not the AQU track record would be broken this year?
Whether he equaled, was a hair better, or a hair worse, it was damn fast.

#39 11-25-2006, 06:53 PM

Unbelievable. One of the best performances ever.

#40 11-25-2006, 08:59 PM

It was a great race, no doubt. But the track was faster than the Indy 500 and Pletcher's quitting allownace horse ran 7f in 1:21:4 earlier in the card(held on by a head over a claimer).
This performance was indeed very good, great even, but don't go getting too carried away by the raw time.
And didn't any of you "he was under a hand ride" guys learn anything from Bernadini? He was asked and had a perfect setup.
Very good effort, but if you really wanna believe the time was so great, then I guess you have to consider Badge a super horse as well for going a mile in 1:33 flat.
Didn't anyone see the undercard and realize just how fast this track was playing?
The statebred allowance horse making his 2nd lifetime start went in 1:35:2 in the last race.
Guys this track was playing at LEAST two seconds fast in one turn races. More like 2 seconds and change.