NTRA (or whomever)

[Antitrust32]

Originally Posted by CrossfireHurricane

Market forces dictate what gets on the frontpage of the sports section, not the NTRA. The NTRA does a good job with the sport it is just that there is not as much interest as there is in other sports like football.

Rachel Alexandra really is not that great of a story either. Horse racing has done a good job of bringing attention to her and may actually overhype her. When you end your year in early September it really is hard to be very excited about any horse. Fall racing is the best racing of the year and she is not taking part in any of it.

you MUST be employed by the NTRA to come up with this responce..

How exactly is Rachel overhyped??

and the NTRA is worthless. Justindew's (the real Justin Dew by the way) initial post was spot on.

Originally Posted by Antitrust32

you MUST be employed by the NTRA to come up with this responce..

How exactly is Rachel overhyped??

and the NTRA is worthless. Justindew's (the real Justin Dew by the way) initial post was spot on.

Heading to the store to stock up on water and supplies.

[Bobby Fischer]

poker would have been just as successful if they had marketed it as a historic spectator sport. [/yea right]

[Antitrust32]

Originally Posted by Coach Pants

Heading to the store to stock up on water and supplies.

I was going to add... for the first time.. but I didnt want to hurt his feelings again.

[TropicalStorm]

Originally Posted by Antitrust32

you MUST be employed by the NTRA to come up with this responce..

How exactly is Rachel overhyped??

and the NTRA is worthless. Justindew's (the real Justin Dew by the way) initial post was spot on.

Rachel is overhyped in the sense that the sport marketed her too hard considering they got a total of 3 real races out of her and only 1 was on national televion.

NTRA is not worthless either. Without them you would get absolutely no promotion at all. It is the fault of state legislatures that the sport is not marketed well.

Back to Rachel, if you look at her races she really did never take on a great horse. I think you can make the argument that there are 3 fillies/mares that would give her a run for her money and she did not race against any of them.

I am fairly certain Icon Project would beat her in a 10f race. The Canadian filly is also very dangerous and you have Zenyatta. Rachel would have lost if she kept running this year. She is much like Curlin was at the age of 4. A horse that was going backwards going into the fall, probably due to a difficult schedule. You have to race in the fall if you want to be considered a great horse. The fall is when 3yr olds mature and when many top older horses target their big race. Rachel was well managed but I suspect she would have been beaten by any 1 of the 3 fillies/mares in the fall. I don't think she would have even been competitive with Icon Project in a 10f race.

[Gander]

Originally Posted by CrossfireHurricane

Rachel is overhyped in the sense that the sport marketed her too hard considering they got a total of 3 real races out of her and only 1 was on national televion.

NTRA is not worthless either. Without them you would get absolutely no promotion at all. It is the fault of state legislatures that the sport is not marketed well.

Back to Rachel, if you look at her races she really did never take on a great horse. I think you can make the argument that there are 3 fillies/mares that would give her a run for her money and she did not race against any of them.

I am fairly certain Icon Project would beat her in a 10f race. The Canadian filly is also very dangerous and you have Zenyatta. Rachel would have lost if she kept running this year. She is much like Curlin was at the age of 4. A horse that was going backwards going into the fall, probably due to a difficult schedule. You have to race in the fall if you want to be considered a great horse. The fall is when 3yr olds mature and when many top older horses target their big race. Rachel was well managed but I suspect she would have been beaten by any 1 of the 3 fillies/mares in the fall. I don't think she would have even been competitive with Icon Project in a 10f race.

I love Rachel but I have to admit I kind of agree with most of your last paragraph, most specifically Icon Project.