Grass Ranks Thinning Because of Synthetics

[pick4]

Originally Posted by blackthroatedwind

He beat a mighty field in the Hawthorne Gold Cup.

I don't totally disagree with you but the field he beat at Del Mar is better than him on the dirt. And, most that are didn't show up at all.

Frankly, there is no greater example of how ridiculous that surface is than Big Booster. He was running for a quarter on the dirt. Granted, it was John Kimmel, but still.

I don't save charts for the Chicago circuit and I purchased the 2/9 Form at a newsstand and is probably at a recycling center somewhere in the USA now. Who did he beat in the Hawthorne Gold Cup?

[SniperSB23]

Originally Posted by pick4

I don't save charts for the Chicago circuit and I purchased the 2/9 Form at a newsstand and is probably at a recycling center somewhere in the USA now. Who did he beat in the Hawthorne Gold Cup?

The mighty Jonesboro and mighty AP Arrow.

[pick4]

Originally Posted by SniperSB23

The mighty Jonesboro and mighty AP Arrow.

That nag A P Arrow won the Grade 2 Clark last fall.

[SniperSB23]

Originally Posted by pick4

That nag A P Arrow won the Grade 2 Clark last fall.

Yes, it is an especially tough race now with no one from the BC Classic or BC Dirt Mile running in it. When the race of your life is to beat a well past his prime Brass Hat by 3/4 of a length I don't think the Hall of Fame is going to be calling anytime soon.

[Cannon Shell]

Originally Posted by pick4

That nag A P Arrow won the Grade 2 Clark last fall.

Which kind of provides evidence that there were no top older horses last year on just about any surface

[Cannon Shell]

Originally Posted by pick4

I don't save charts for the Chicago circuit and I purchased the 2/9 Form at a newsstand and is probably at a recycling center somewhere in the USA now. Who did he beat in the Hawthorne Gold Cup?

Probably nobody. But it was a graded dirt win and the field he beat at Del Mar was still a field full of slow horses and one good horses in decline. The time was a joke but i still maintain that result is far from shocking on either surface. He won the worst running of the race ever but it was going to be the worst running regardless of surface.

[blackthroatedwind]

Originally Posted by pick4

I don't save charts for the Chicago circuit and I purchased the 2/9 Form at a newsstand and is probably at a recycling center somewhere in the USA now. Who did he beat in the Hawthorne Gold Cup?

AP Arrow, who never lifted a hoof, and not much else.

Let me rephrase that.....AP Arrow was in the field and he beat nobody.