Eight Belles post # prediction thread

[brianwspencer]

Originally Posted by horseofcourse

she'd run over 8 furlongs 5 times in her career...more races than some had total races run at this point. I think you meant 9 furlongs perhaps. Greed is what racing is about. People generally want to make money. Breakdowns do occur. Even boys against boys often times. It is a part of horse racing.

And I'm still unsure of why it matters anyway.

What about the horses who had run 1 1/8 just a single time?

Johnny would have you believe that the fact that they prepped for an additional six or seven seconds is what saved them from sure catastrophe today.

You don't get to point to the distance and the distances she had run, when the longest any colt in the race had run was a sixteenth of a mile further than her.

I suppose next time a 2 year old breaks down at five furlongs after running four furlongs the previous time out, Johnny will be up in arms wondering why they didn't prep him at 4 1/2.

Inane. Bullshit.