Champions Who Failed As Stallions

[miraja2]

Originally Posted by Bold Brooklynite

You snivelling, slimy, dodging liar ...
You're a phony and a creep ... and now it's evident to the entire membership of this forum. You know nothing ... you cheap poseur.

Bold Brooklynite is without a doubt one of my favorite posters on this board. He is a great writer, generally knows a lot, and is HIGHLY entertaining. If he leaves for good....I will miss him.

That being said....I think Steve was absolutely right to penalize him for comments like those I quoted. He and PA have a history of disagreeing....which is fine, but BB does not seem to see the difference between PA's criticism of his list, and his decision to resort to childish name-calling. That is unfortunate.

I find it hysterical when I read the breeding column by yet another of these pedigree "experts" in the DRF before a big race. They basically write how "well bred" the main contenders are. Its so funny to me because they will resort to anything to justify the breeding on the pedigrees. Whether its the mare, the sire, a 4x4 cross, or going back 75 years to a foundation mare way back in the pedigree. Gee, thats really "sharp".
Last year before the Remsen and Demoiselle, two grade twos run at Aqueduct on Thanksgiving weekend each year, one of the "all knowing pedigree columnists" wrote a column on these races. Because they are the first graded stakes run for two year olds on the dirt going a mile and an eigth each year, it was supposed to be riveting stuff. We were gonna be told who was gonna be a contender off the bloodlines.
So the "pedigree analysis" for the Demoiselle is written by this expert, and every horse in the field of 5 is written up as having justification to win the race except one. The one who received no write up of the 5 horses won easily. Her name was Wonder Lady Anne L. Gee, I guess a daughter of a sire beaten a nose for the triple crown had absolutely no right to wanna go two turns huh? She went on to win a grade one at a mile and a quarter as well.
I find it laughable, all of it.
Everyone can tell who is "bred" to go a route of ground. But those other "minor factors" like who trains them, their running style, how sharp they are in their CURRENT form, and the pace scenario for that particular race tend to decide outcomes, not pedigrees.

Originally Posted by miraja2

Bold Brooklynite is without a doubt one of my favorite posters on this board. He is a great writer, generally knows a lot, and is HIGHLY entertaining. If he leaves for good....I will miss him.

That being said....I think Steve was absolutely right to penalize him for comments like those I quoted. He and PA have a history of disagreeing....which is fine, but BB does not seem to see the difference between PA's criticism of his list, and his decision to resort to childish name-calling. That is unfortunate.

I agree with what Steve is doing here. Hes also helping us to expand our vocabulary and writing skills. Its ok for someone to berate what someone does, so long as you don't call them names.
We are know challenged to raise our argumentative and debating skills to reply without calling them a moron or an idiot. You have to express the same thing without using those words.