11/25-26 (CD): Falls City H. (G2); Clark H. (G1)

[Seattleallstar]

and i was off doing Black Friday bullshit, arghh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[JJP]

Memo to Rose Napravnik:

IF McLaughlin lets you ride that horse again, do not try to rate him. If you let him roll, he would've avoided all that trouble. What was the opening quarter? 24 4/5??

[Dahoss]

Originally Posted by JJP

Memo to Rose Napravnik:

IF McLaughlin lets you ride that horse again, do not try to rate him. If you let him roll, he would've avoided all that trouble. What was the opening quarter? 24 4/5??

Had he been rolling early he would have finished farther back then he did.

[JJP]

I'm not sure how you are coming to that conclusion. He set a very fast pace (adjusted) in the Hawthorne Gold Cup and still had enough left to outfinish Giant Oak. Now what was he? 1-2 lengths ahead of Giant Oak on the backstretch? What was the half in the Clark, 48 and change? 49?

[ateamstupid]

Originally Posted by JJP

I'm not sure how you are coming to that conclusion. He set a very fast pace (adjusted) in the Hawthorne Gold Cup and still had enough left to outfinish Giant Oak. Now what was he? 1-2 lengths ahead of Giant Oak on the backstretch? What was the half in the Clark, 48 and change? 49?

While I agree that he should have been closer, the race collapsed and there's no guarantee he would've stayed on.

[The Indomitable DrugS]

Originally Posted by ateamstupid

While I agree that he should have been closer, the race collapsed and there's no guarantee he would've stayed on.

Yeah - the race "collapsed" because the two horses up front suck - and Giant Oak and Succesful Dan are simply much better than any horse in that race who didn't finish in the top 3.

The pace was a friggen joke. 48.92 for a half mile and Successful Dan almost ripped Leperoux out of the saddle. It was a crawl. Cheap claimers went much faster at the same distance.

That's not a collapse. That's the two best horses in the race outrunning a pack of inferior horses.

[The Indomitable DrugS]

Originally Posted by Dahoss

Had he been rolling early he would have finished farther back then he did.

He held off Giant Oak with ease at 10 furlongs last time out ... at 9fs it would have been a piece of cake.

[Dahoss]

Originally Posted by The Indomitable DrugS

He held off Giant Oak with ease at 10 furlongs last time out ... at 9fs it would have been a piece of cake.

With ease? Hyperbole at it's finest.

Face it, Reading Colliery just isn't as good as many think he is. he wasn't winning under any scenario today and would have been gobbled up by Successful Dan had he been on the muscle throughout.

[randallscott35]

Originally Posted by Dahoss

With ease? Hyperbole at it's finest.

Face it, Reading Colliery just isn't as good as many think he is. he wasn't winning under any scenario today and would have been gobbled up by Successful Dan had he been on the muscle throughout.

yup

[The Indomitable DrugS]

Originally Posted by Dahoss

With ease? Hyperbole at it's finest.

Face it, Reading Colliery just isn't as good as many think he is. he wasn't winning under any scenario today and would have been gobbled up by Successful Dan had he been on the muscle throughout.

Based on what - the fact that you didn't like him beforehand - or the fact that Randall agrees with you ... which should always make one question their opinion.

Obviously Giant Oak is a much better horse than everything in that Clark field not named Successful Dan .. but he is not better than Redding Collery.

Redding Collery - on figures - should have had a 7-to-9 length early lead over Regal Ransom - he's that much faster early on than Regal Ransom... and Regal Ransom (fresh off of his 69 Beyer last out) was the 2nd quickest horse in this race.

Even the Moss Pace figures say the same thing.



All the credit goes to Rosie ... she's actually going to get a slower first call pace number than the 48 she got at Monmouth when Duke Of Mischief pissed all over Redding Collery.

Originally Posted by Dahoss

Face it, Reading Colliery just isn't as good as many think he is

He was a much bigger price than Apart - who is a complete piece of crap and should have been 30/1 in the Clark. How good do people really think the horse is?

[blackthroatedwind]

Apart really was hilarious at 7:2. He was a litmus test horse.

[Dahoss]

Originally Posted by The Indomitable DrugS

Based on what - the fact that you didn't like him beforehand - or the fact that Randall agrees with you ... which should always make one question their opinion.

Obviously Giant Oak is a much better horse than everything in that Clark field not named Successful Dan .. but he is not better than Redding Collery.

Redding Collery - on figures - should have had a 7-to-9 length early lead over Regal Ransom - he's that much faster early on than Regal Ransom... and Regal Ransom (fresh off of his 69 Beyer last out) was the 2nd quickest horse in this race.

Even the Moss Pace figures say the same thing.



All the credit goes to Rosie ... she's actually going to get a slower first call pace number than the 48 she got at Monmouth when Duke Of Mischief pissed all over Redding Collery.





He was a much bigger price than Apart - who is a complete piece of crap and should have been 30/1 in the Clark. How good do people really think the horse is?

Lots of words and you really said nothing here. You're Classhandicapper with a better opinion, congrats.

Not sure what Apart has to do with anything. I'm basing it on my opinion of the horse. I don't need to be Kreskin to figure out you liked Redding Colliery and instead of just accepting he's not that good, it's going to be excuse after excuse. Successful Dan is better than he is. Much better.

Simple question, if he opens up 5 or 6 early, who do you think wins the race?

[The Indomitable DrugS]

Originally Posted by JJP

Memo to Rose Napravnik:

IF McLaughlin lets you ride that horse again, do not try to rate him. If you let him roll, he would've avoided all that trouble. What was the opening quarter? 24 4/5??

It's Rosie ... and why bother with memo's to pinheads?

There was no pace at all on paper - other than the hopeless Regal Ransom - and she decides to reach up and grab a horse coming out of a race where he earned an absolutely supersonic pace figure and beat Giant Oak - who got the pace setup of a lifetime and could only manage 2nd.

It was a clever change of tactics - take away a horses best weapon - so you can get Knocked sideways around the first turn while eye balling other horses. I realize the bump on the far turn was what led to the DQ ... but that was the best thing that happened to Rosie the whole race.

Everytime Redding Collery doesn't run a very big pace figure - he runs like dogsh!t. He had a perfectly clean trip at Monmouth - but Duke of Mishchief absolutely toyed with him in a cleanly run slow paced race.

I was telling people that I was going to be fuming if she doesn't have a two length lead on Regal Ransom through the first turn - I needed to be scraped off the floor when I saw her taking him back - keeping him wide - getting bounced around like a pin ball - and eye to eye with a pack of other horses while several lenghts off the leader behind a pokey pace.