D'OH! No Queen's Plate for Rocker..

[Kasept]

Harlem Rocker, decisive winner of the Withers Stakes (gr. III) but fourth in the Plate Trial in his first Polytrack start, will not contest the Queen's Plate on June 22 at Woodbine... http://racing.bloodhorse.com/article/45745.htm

[the_fat_man]

He's really done enough.

[kgar311]

Is this the same horse that would of beat BB in the preakness? Oh I wish I had to time to repost all the threads of me bashing this POS and everybody attacking me for it. I feel all tingly inside.

[hockey2315]

Originally Posted by kgar311

Is this the same horse that would of beat BB in the preakness? Oh I wish I had to time to repost all the threads of me bashing this POS and everybody attacking me for it. I feel all tingly inside.

Ya you've clearly been proven right. . .

[Danzig]

he's not the first horse to show lots of promise, only to bomb on a surface switch. pryo never took a step wrong til he went to keeneland. put the rocker back on dirt, then we'll see.
one good showing isn't enough to make them good, and certainly one bad one isn't enough to make them bad!

[CSC]

I posted this earlier this morning, I guess it was missed. But I am happy to share it again...

A fast but "backwards" workout by Plate contender HARLEM ROCKER on the Polytrack today at Woodbine has left the Stronach Stables team in a quandary about whteher to start the grey colt in the June 22 Plate.

According to manager Mike Rogers, Harlem Rocker's workout featured the grey son of Macho Uno going fast in the early part of the 5 furlong prep ('22 and change') and then slowing down at the end (58 1/5 for 5 furlongs, out in 1:12 and change)

"It was kind of backwards, he went fast and then fell apart," said Rogers.
"It doesn't make our decision any easier,"

Rogers said Stronach wanted to view the workout tape himself before deciding the colt's status for new week.

[CSC]

Originally Posted by kgar311

Is this the same horse that would of beat BB in the preakness? Oh I wish I had to time to repost all the threads of me bashing this POS and everybody attacking me for it. I feel all tingly inside.

I certainly never bashed you, but I do disagree. Anyway everyone is entitled to an opinion and you expressed yours. We will see down the line if you are indeed correct.

[blackthroatedwind]

Originally Posted by kgar311

Is this the same horse that would of beat BB in the preakness? Oh I wish I had to time to repost all the threads of me bashing this POS and everybody attacking me for it. I feel all tingly inside.

I'm trying to wrap myself around this conundrum.....in this thread you say this.....while in another thread you say this ( just minutes apart )....

Originally Posted by kgar311

All of it is crap to me anyways. So now instead of track bias we need to handicap which type of wax they are running on too? What ever happened to dirt and turf. All of these non horsemen intellectuals are overthinking and ruining the game.

So, which is it?

[ateamstupid]

Originally Posted by blackthroatedwind

I'm trying to wrap myself around this conundrum.....in this thread you say this.....while in another thread you say this ( just minutes apart )....






So, which is it?

Neither. The guy's feelings got so hurt by someone suggesting that Big Brown could lose, he lost his ability to rationally think about Harlem Rocker.

[blackthroatedwind]

Originally Posted by ateamstupid

Neither. The guy's feelings got so hurt by someone suggesting that Big Brown could lose, he lost his ability to rationally think about Harlem Rocker.

The guy has a bunch of posts about how much he hates polytrack but when it suits him polytrack is completely dismissed as a possible excuse.

Close your eyes for a second and think of the internet if people wanted as much attention for their bad opinions as they seem to for their good ones.

[kgar311]

Originally Posted by ateamstupid

Neither. The guy's feelings got so hurt by someone suggesting that Big Brown could lose, he lost his ability to rationally think about Harlem Rocker.

No thats not the case. The same people that gave BB no respect at all and were looking for any other horse to tout to beat BB picked this rat and touted him as the next Secretariat. I just couldnt understand how the Kentucky Derby winner was soooo bad and this horse was soooo good?

[kgar311]

Originally Posted by blackthroatedwind

I'm trying to wrap myself around this conundrum.....in this thread you say this.....while in another thread you say this ( just minutes apart )....






So, which is it?

I wish the people that touted this horse and said he would beat BB in the Preakness would please step up to the plate. The reason I say this is because the way people were portraying him on this sight as a superhorse. If he was that great dont you think he could of easily went up to canada and beat those horses up there on any surface? Horse didnt even finish in the money.

[kgar311]

Originally Posted by DaHoss9698

I don't think anyone was portraying him as a superhorse. He had been extremely impressive, both visually and figure wise. And in a year when the 3 year old crop is mediocre at best, it appeared he might be a good one. I'm more apt to see how a horse bounces back from an effort where he/she might have a legit excuse like surface and or distance.

The Plate Trial was Harlem Rocker's first going 2 turns and first over a synthetic surface. Considering how good J Be K looked Belmont Day and considering Harlem Rocker pissed on him, isn't at least possible to assume that harlem Rocker is a lot better than the Woodbine effort showed? Maybe he has distance limitations and maybe he didn't like the track, but until he comes back, who knows?

So if he went in the Preakness that race would of been his first around two turns and against BB. Nobody seemed to think that would of been an problem for him that day and he would of had to been a superhorse to win that race. I hope for the sake of racing that he turns out to be good but people were way off about this horse at the moment.

[Habersham000]

Originally Posted by the_fat_man

He's really done enough.

Did you just make that up? Have never heard that saying towards a horse ever....very creative

[the_fat_man]

Originally Posted by Habersham000

Did you just make that up? Have never heard that saying towards a horse ever....very creative

Thanks for pointing that out. I'll make sure to put you on my watch list of contributors here. You clearly have much to add.

Originally Posted by the_fat_man

Thanks for pointing that out. I'll make sure to put you on my watch list of contributors here. You clearly have much to add.

Calling Lance Armstrong.

Needed: Incredibly silly comparisons between bikes and horses.

or bicyclists and jockeys...

[jcs11204]

Originally Posted by the_fat_man

He's really done enough.

that is so ****ing dumb... i cringe when i see ppl saying that, its so...... lame, and old.