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06-16-2006, 01:02 PM
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25 of them had full, injury-free careers ... of the 26 ... only Hail To Reason had his career compromised by injury. The best strategy was ... is ... and always will be ... to run them early and often. Young horses must learn what it means to be professional athletes ... and must be raced into proper condition to accomplish that. "Spacing" races and running horses "fresh" ... only produces the type of china dolls ... like Barbaro ... who can't physically or mentally handle the pressure of G1 racing. As to Mr. Pletcher ... what else is new? He always has stables full of the best-bred horses ... and has rightfully become known as the "King Of The MSW Sprints." But when the 2YO colts have to go two turns in G1 races ... or the older colts have to go 10f ... it's bye-bye Toddie. Every year he sets a new record for Triple Crown nominess ... and every year he comes up empty. He's a very accomplished trainer ... and a real nice guy ... but he's never developed a colt into a champion at classic distances ... though he's had several hundred opportunites to do so. Maybe some day he will ... so please wake me from my nap when he does. Last edited by Bold Brooklynite : 06-16-2006 at 01:05 PM. 
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06-16-2006, 01:06 PM
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Your Barbaro "China doll" comment is perhaps the dumbest thing I have ever read. Get a life.
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06-16-2006, 01:54 PM
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06-16-2006, 01:58 PM
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Pletcher has another nice 2 year old running today in the 8th race at Churchill. Her name is Chagall. I saw her work at the FS 2 year old sale in Florida. She worked an 1/8th in :10 2/5. She looks like she can reall run. They bought her out of that sale for $825,000.
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06-16-2006, 01:59 PM
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I will take the word of the guys at Three Chimneys. Any study would be unreliable because they just don't run as often in their careers. The data suggests that horses careers are now shorter than they were, across all levels.
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06-16-2006, 02:01 PM
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On the Thoro-Graph "Ask the Experts" forum, there's been a lot about this... Some of Jerry's Kids have been doing various studies, analyses on the tpoic.. Haven't seen the conclusions though...
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06-16-2006, 02:11 PM
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It's clear that G1-level horses are raced far less than in the past ... but I don't think it's because they're any more fragile. In the past ... horses who began their racing careers early on ... and who raced frequently ... tended to stay sounder longer. Maybe it was Darwinian in that they were the sounder specimens to begin with ... but I believe that being a G1 professional athlete requires extraordinary physical and mental training ... which today's horses simply aren't getting.
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06-16-2006, 02:23 PM
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06-16-2006, 02:00 PM
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It's really meaningless to infer or say as you did that a debut at 5.5f is useless for a 2yo in terms of prepping for his 3yo season. Next year is so far away that sort of comment sounds silly to me. It's obvious the colt was ready and Pletcher decided -- correctly -- that yesterday's race was the right place to start. Nobody proclaimed him a Triple Crown winner. He's just a very nice colt who ran a super debut. good luck.
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09-05-2006, 03:09 AM
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just for fun... here's the original Cirqular Quay thread. Though he's faster and better now, I still think his maiden win was his most impressive race.
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