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Old 02-26-2008, 04:53 PM
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here is the video, and you are wrong. there's nowhere he's offstride. it's close to physically impossible to work that fast unless the stride was perfect.

http://www.courier-journal.com/blogs...es-in-red.html

the horse was a bum. just like a lot of them at 2YO in training sales.
Of course he was cross-firing. Ask a trainer. Ask anyone else on here who knows what cross-firing is...

He was on his right lead up front, and his left lead behind. He never once switched behind like he should have.

I give up... I don't even know why I try.
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Old 02-26-2008, 05:03 PM
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Of course he was cross-firing. Ask a trainer. Ask anyone else on here who knows what cross-firing is...

He was on his right lead up front, and his left lead behind. He never once switched behind like he should have.

I give up... I don't even know why I try.
I just asked one, and also another who knows more in her pinky about horse conformation and physics than you would ever know. Both of them agreed with me,

If you supposedly knew this then why didn't you call up Coolmore and tell them before they got involved??? Oh yeah, because you're wrong.
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Old 02-26-2008, 05:05 PM
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You could have saved them 15 million and some change if you would have told them you didnt like their horse
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Old 02-26-2008, 05:18 PM
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You could have saved them 15 million and some change if you would have told them you didnt like their horse
Well, he was a beautiful mover up front, and worked fast, but I would steer clear of a horse that cross-fires all the way down the stretch or switches leads like crazy down the stretch.

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Old 02-26-2008, 05:42 PM
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You dont expect a horse to be green whatsoever when you evaluate unraced 2yolds?
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Old 02-26-2008, 05:43 PM
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You dont expect a horse to be green whatsoever when you evaluate unraced 2yolds?

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Old 02-26-2008, 05:47 PM
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Pretty serious crowd in here today. Lot of information to absorb
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Old 02-26-2008, 06:07 PM
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You dont expect a horse to be green whatsoever when you evaluate unraced 2yolds?
Some of it is can be a horse being green. However, I don't view it as green when the horse cross-fires all the way down the stretch.

I view it as either a lack of balance and athleticism or the horse is dealing with unsoundness of some kind when they do it the entire length of the stretch as it is uncomfortable for a balanced horse to cross-fire a long way. If you follow the horses that cross-fire all the way down the stretch from the sales to the races, even if they have a good work out and move nice up front, you will see why I came to this conclusion.

If they cross-fire a little way down the stretch, and then switch to the correct lead, I don't knock the horse off the list because I view it as being green if they move nice off the right lead.

If they switch back and forth multiple times down the stretch in the workout, they are often unsound and do the exact same thing in their races if they make it to the races.

If they don't switch to their right lead at all like they are supposed to, they often don't switch in their races if they make it to the races.

Many of the consignors work the **** out of these horses before the sales too, so most of the horses should know how to switch leads correctly.
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Old 02-26-2008, 09:00 PM
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You dont expect a horse to be green whatsoever when you evaluate unraced 2yolds?
What do you think about horses that cross-fire all the way down the stretch like the Green Monkey? Do you toss them or does it depend on everything else such as the x-rays and the like?
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Old 02-27-2008, 07:09 AM
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What do you think about horses that cross-fire all the way down the stretch like the Green Monkey? Do you toss them or does it depend on everything else such as the x-rays and the like?

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Old 02-26-2008, 05:06 PM
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I just asked one, and also another who knows more in her pinky about horse conformation and physics than you would ever know. Both of them agreed with me,

If you supposedly knew this then why didn't you call up Coolmore and tell them before they got involved??? Oh yeah, because you're wrong.
I'm not wrong. Ask The Bid or Cannon Shell. I'm sure they know.

Whoever you are talking to, does not know what they are talking about.

The horse is on one lead up front, and a different lead behind.

Why would I care about saving Coolmore any money?
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Old 02-26-2008, 05:10 PM
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Thebby.......please move this to esoteric.....the entertainment value will go thru the roof....
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