Here's a real shocker!

[The Indomitable DrugS]

How's the weight assignment "unfair" ?

You do realize that this race isn't a handicap...and Frankel knew exactly how much weight he'd be carrying when he entered the horse.

Frankel also is a rabid sheet figure user...and has a history of scratching in situations like this.

I'm not saying Fabulous Strike is a mortal lock either---as he had smoke and mirror trips in those races, over what can be a peculiar surface. Although, the figures are stone cold accurate---and he and Greg's Gold are almost certain to run 1-2...with him being the more likely winner.

[The Indomitable DrugS]

Here's a link to the nominations.

The only way Frankel didn't know he'd carrying that weight...is if he doesn't know how to read.

http://www.churchilldowns.com/racing...stidesnoms.pdf

I do realize it's tremendously unfair that he had to give between 2-to-4 pounds at the distance of six furlongs--in a Grade 3 stake--off of a Grade 2 win last time out.

[blackthroatedwind]

I think the weight comment was a joke.

The contest seems to have you unusually on edge today.

[The Indomitable DrugS]

No.

The guy who said it was the weight was the same (and I think only) poster who tweaked out on me for mentioning how fast his figures have been.

[blackthroatedwind]

You could be right but considering Frankel's history of bitching about inane weight assignments it appears to be a joke to me.

Either way....who cares. I am much more annoyed that I didn't follow up on Garifine.

[Dunbar]

I read it as a joke, too. We all know Frankel is the poster boy for scratching due to weight.

--Dunbar

[The Indomitable DrugS]

He typically doesn't scratch because of weight---he'll just skip a handicap race and not enter if he feels he was given an unfair weight assignment.

Or, in some cases (Wild Spirit) he will run, and get beat a nose, and whine about it....though I believe that was more Jerry Bailey than Frankel....who, in one of his all-time greatest moments....personally blamed the racing sec. for him losing the race in a televised interview as well.

After that classic "I was on the best horse...but racing secretary Mike Lakow just got us beat today" quote -- as perhaps fallout...Jerry Bailey was fined a few days later for whipping one of his mounts about ten yards after the wire.