ARISTIDES: Fabulous Strike 'comes out'..

[The Indomitable DrugS]

Originally Posted by cmorioles

I will make the argument that FS was at best the co-most impressive 6f winner at CD last week, and probably only second best.

I'm assuming you're talking about the two horses off of the 2nd and 3rd place finish to Go Bucky Go, who ran 111 and 110 Beyers at CD on Wednesday.

Really, with the kind of trip FS got---and knowing what kind of figures he has on the go back---there's almost nothing he could have done to be "impressive" when the race is put under the microscope.

He certainly has something in common with Street Sense---in that they've both managed to get four superb trips in a row (over a natural dirt surface in SS's case) and that is flat out rare....and as you know, the quality of competiton you get the trips against is something that is GIGANTICALLY overrated.

Consensus division leader Smokey Stover, had a dramatic string of bad luck comparable to the run of good luck that horses like SS and FS have been having. He was losing races against lesser horses at tracks like Turf Paradice and to a couple moderate horses in alw races at Del Mar.

When they finally put him in much tougher races, and he hooked some of the best sprinters in the country---he beat them because he simply didn't have the same kind of horrible trips he kept getting against much lesser horses.

I realize you know this...but I'm only saying this so the silly comments about class---and the silly comments about "good horses always have good trips" doesn't start back up.

[cmorioles]

I'm only talking about the winner. The horse was in last behind a pace very similar to that set by Fabulous Strike in the Aristides. Despite that, he was able to run down the pace setters and get up late in a time only .02 off that of FS.

The figure I gave him, 110, compares very favorably to the 113 I gave FS when you consider the trips each had.

[The Bid]

Benny the Bull is a really nice horse.

His number came back 111 with a 1 rag for his efforts against the Maggi Moss horse.

[Bobby Fischer]

Originally Posted by cmorioles

I'm only talking about the winner. The horse was in last behind a pace very similar to that set by Fabulous Strike in the Aristides. Despite that, he was able to run down the pace setters and get up late in a time only .02 off that of FS.

The figure I gave him, 110, compares very favorably to the 113 I gave FS when you consider the trips each had.

What is the name of this horse for comparison?

[cmorioles]

Benny the Bull I believe. He has recently changed hands and appears to have really improved.

[Bobby Fischer]

thanks

[King Glorious]

I'm surprised that number came back as a 111 for Benny. The track seemed like the Bonneville Salt Flats that day. The other 6f race on the card went in 1:08.68 The 6.5f race went in 1:16.51 and the two 7f races went in 1:21.54 and 1:22.73

I feel that anytime u can have two sub 1:09's and a sub 1:22 on a card and it's not the Summit of Speed day at Calder, the track is playing crazy fast and the numbers mean a little less to me.

[The Bid]

No doubt about it the track was fast that day, but that was an exceptional run. Running against what seemed to be a slower opening quarter