Why win and your in sucks...

[NTamm1215]

Originally Posted by brianwspencer

Isn't that exactly why Purim is a perfect horse for a WAYI kind of thing? Ran down a pretty solid bunch of turf milers in a GI race three weeks out from the BC, yet he shouldn't be in? He basically fits your "winners of higher graded, more contentious races" qualification to a tee.

Miesque's Approval didn't look too deserving last year. That ended up well.

Miesque's Approval and Purim is a bad comparison. Miesque's Approval was a multiple graded stakes winner in '06, he had beaten the previous year's BC Mile champion and had only lost in the Shadwell and against English Channel early in the year at Gulfstream. He had every right to be in the BC Mile.

NT

[brianwspencer]

Originally Posted by NTamm1215

Miesque's Approval and Purim is a bad comparison. Miesque's Approval was a multiple graded stakes winner in '06, he had beaten the previous year's BC Mile champion and had only lost in the Shadwell and against English Channel early in the year at Gulfstream. He had every right to be in the BC Mile.

NT

And so does Purim. I'm hard pressed to find many more important or prestigious turf miles in the country throughout the year. Maybe he's a Keeneland specialist, but nearly snagging the Maker's Mark and then taking down the Shadwell mile would make any horse a legit BC entrant. If any other horse had that same record in big turf miles this year, nobody would have any problem with that horse making the BC starting gate.

Purim deserves it. I only used Miesque's Approval because part of the complaining earlier in the thread was that Purim will be a 30-1 shot in the Mile, allegedly giving him the chance to knock a "more deserving" horse out of the field. Not every horse can be a favorite, and Miesque's Approval certainly didn't look like the most likely winner in the BC Mile, just like Purim won't, but that doesn't make him unqualified to be a part of the field after an effort like Saturday's.

[Danzig]

i guess making it an invitational wouldn't work?

[NoLuvForPletch]

Originally Posted by NTamm1215

Miesque's Approval and Purim is a bad comparison. Miesque's Approval was a multiple graded stakes winner in '06, he had beaten the previous year's BC Mile champion and had only lost in the Shadwell and against English Channel early in the year at Gulfstream. He had every right to be in the BC Mile.

NT

This is strictly from memory, so don't shoot me if I am wrong, but didn't Miesque's Approval lose while available for a tag at Saratoga earlier that year? I know for sure he ran and lost in a claiming race at Saratoga, because I bet him, but I am unsure if it was '05 or '06.

Regardless, the WAYI concept is a marketing ploy as everyone associated with the idea will tell you flat out. It is nothing more than that so why is everyone getting so worked up over it? Don't the majority of these horses that win these late season races leading up to the Cup end up in the race regardless? How many of the WAYI horses would not be going without the automatic berth?

[SCUDSBROTHER]

Why don't they move the date of this thing up by one month.Seems like the weather(in general) is much better in late September/early October.

[NoLuvForPletch]

Originally Posted by DaHoss9698

It was '05.

It was starting to feel that way the more I thought about it because he was still with Mott at that point, right?

Thanks