Pyro Smyro.. What A Slow Horse...

[jcs11204]

Originally Posted by JJP

If he liked it, he would've crushed the field. He didn't, so what difference is it if he was 6th or 10th? He was there for the fitness aspect, which he figured to get. Yeah, I'm sure Asmussen would've liked to have won but they had to figure that there was a reasonable chance he wouldn't take to it at all. The bottom line is this: synthetic surfaces in no way resemble anything close to real dirt. And if I may quote Bob Baffert, "Polytrack makes good horses look average, and average horses look good".

we will see on the 3rd. i have a feeling he does not fire at all.

[jcs11204]

Originally Posted by jcs11204

we will see on the 3rd. i have a feeling he does not fire at all.

also who are you to say he would have crushed anything ?

he is slow, his times are slow just like everyone else.
he was beat 3 times easily by war pass...
you really dont make much sense

[hockey2315]

What distances did War Pass beat Pyro at? What kind of pace scenarios?

[jcs11204]

Originally Posted by hockey2315

What distances did War Pass beat Pyro at? What kind of pace scenarios?

o boy....
whatever im not doing this.
is pyro fast ?

[Danzig]

Originally Posted by jcs11204

o boy....
whatever im not doing this.
is pyro fast ?

why not? war pass beat pyro at two, at shorter distances. times have changed, and the results may as well.

[hockey2315]

I would love to see War Pass vs. Commentator at a mile. . . Commentator would probably spit the bit, though. . .

[HaloWishingwell]

"And if I may quote Bob Baffert, "Polytrack makes good horses look average, and average horses look good"."


Finishing tenth is not a race of an average horse. Even if he wasn't cranked up he surely should have been somewhere in the vicinity of the top three. Nazfger last year with STREET SENSE was believable that he wasn't cranked up and he managed a fourth place blanket finish. PYRO only blanketed the ambulance around the track.I expect more than that from a good horse.

[JJP]

Originally Posted by jcs11204

also who are you to say he would have crushed anything ?

he is slow, his times are slow just like everyone else.
he was beat 3 times easily by war pass...
you really dont make much sense

War Pass is a miler who realistically outran his distance limitations in the Wood yet he still couldn't win. And BTW, those three wins were as a 2YO at 6 furlongs, 1 mile and 1 1/16 miles in a sea of ocean-like slop at Monmouth.

And how fast was Pyro supposed to run in the races he won? His final 1/4 in the Risen Star was under 23 seconds, which is unheard of on dirt.