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Originally Posted by freddymo
He is a very cool horse. That is the type of horse that excites fans.
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Read: All it takes to excite fans these days are a couple of open lengths wins in short fields of dubious quality from an unsound speedball with no stamina.
Just imagine Housebuster in this era of disposable "super horses"...
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I don't need him Country Grammer or Dynamic One etc. to get the best of him in the final strides of the Classic.
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Read: I don't need him to get exposed lest my excitement dissipates over the 39 seconds it will take him to see out the final 3 furlongs of a 10 furlong race.
When you consider the prospects of Grade 3 horses like Country Grammar & Dynamic One in the Classic (and furthermore previous winners like Volponi, Vino Rosso, Drosselmeyer, etc), you probably made a compelling argument for the suits to cut the Classic to 9 furlongs.
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I don't see how that is awesome save-betting against him.
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Read: Rather than successfully handicapping the most likely outcome I'd rather drink the Kool-Aid that WinStar offers me till they move onto the next one.
Poor Life is Good, he'd actually have to validate his bloated reputation by winning a race of some consequence over a true classic distance.
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Olympiad should target the Cigar for his G1.
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Olympiad doesn't deserve to win a Grade 1 win if he can't even maintain form over Happy Saver.
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Flight Risk? who knows with him? Let me see make the pp's
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One of the worst managed quality horses of all time. At the very least should have had a similar campaign as Rail Trip back in 2009.
To be fair, Stilleto Boy did beat Express Train in a 3-horse field in a prep for the Gold Cup (which itself was one by an allowance horse) so I guess it probably means Flightline could have won those.
Oh, and Baby Yoda (conquerer of Grade 1 winner-in-waiting Olympiad) won a couple of starter allowances this year, so there's that...
08-08-2022, 09:57 AM
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