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Old 04-13-2008, 07:10 PM
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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
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Old 04-13-2008, 07:12 PM
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What distances did War Pass beat Pyro at? What kind of pace scenarios?
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Old 04-13-2008, 07:14 PM
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What distances did War Pass beat Pyro at? What kind of pace scenarios?
o boy....
whatever im not doing this.
is pyro fast ?
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Old 04-13-2008, 10:56 PM
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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.
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Old 04-13-2008, 11:07 PM
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I would love to see War Pass vs. Commentator at a mile. . . Commentator would probably spit the bit, though. . .
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Old 04-14-2008, 09:58 AM
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"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.
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Old 04-14-2008, 10:07 AM
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"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.


As JJP said, if he didn't handle the surface (and don't act like that's some wild supposition), what difference does it make if he ran sixth or tenth? He wasn't asked much by Bridgmo and once he saw that he couldn't place, he left him alone. The fact that the second and third choices ran ninth and eleventh gives even more cause to laugh off the race.
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Old 04-13-2008, 07:30 PM
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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.
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