8/25 (SAR): Travers, King's Bishop, Test (G1's), Ballston Spa (G3)

[NTamm1215]

Originally Posted by King Glorious

I can understand being a "glass if half full" kind of guy but at some point, you have to also realize that it's still half empty. Saying this is the best of what we've got left is not the same as saying it's good. If you put 11 $40k claimers in the field, you'd still have 11 3yos in a grade one race. A competitive race, a good betting race, doesn't make it a good race. If you turn on the men's 100m final at the Olympics and Bolt, Blake, Gatlin, Powell, and Gay are all missing, it's not even worth watching. Sure, the remaining runners could end up in an eight-way dead-heat and it would make for an exciting finish....but the reason we watch sports at the highest level is to see the highest quality. Through no fault of it's own, this race completely lacks it.

This just in....there are very few good horses in modern racing.

[King Glorious]

Originally Posted by NTamm1215

This just in....there are very few good horses in modern racing.

I agree and that was my point. There are few and the few we have aren't here. So it's not possible to be a good field if there aren't any good horses. When the NFL players went on strike in 1987, just cause there were replacement players on the field and they wore the uniforms of the real teams and played in the same stadiums and the tickets cost as much, it wasn't good football.

[jms62]

Originally Posted by NTamm1215

This just in....there are very few good horses in modern racing.

Spot on and to think going into the derby I was telling everyone coming to my derby party that i was stoked because i thought it was the best 3 year old crop in some time. Wow how things change in 3 months.