Yessir, you are what the kids refer to as "dropping mad knowledge" today. I appreciate all of it. You are one smart motherfucker, and I mean that with full respect.
The funny thing also is these super horses, like Bid andMy first memories of horse racing when I was just a kid were actually of The Bid, and it may have even been in that walkover you alluded. Imagine that hey? A big G1 race and every other horse in training doesn't even bother to contest the race and instead concedes in advance. That says a lot about a horse right there if he's allowed a walkover in a G1 race. But you're 100% correct. The Bid was friggin "spectacular". There's three horse in my opinion over the last 50 years or so who breathed different air than all the others and Spectacular Bid was certainly one of them along with Drer and Secretariat. They were just faster than all the rest. Just better. And they proved it time and time again unlike a lot of more recent horses who do it one or two times. I cringed every time I saw someone refer to Zenyatta, Pharoah, etc., as the "greatest ever". They weren't. Not even close, although they were certainly great in their own eras. They just weren't in contention for "greatest ever", though, unlike
er, they weren't pegged as such from the beginning and just had that X factor. I'm watching these yearling sales, with people spending two million on War front colts, and to me, it's just insane. It's like all the freak horses end up coming from mediocre stock. Even the really, really good ones, like Chrome, were from bottom of the barrel breeding stock.
More interesting to me is the progress that this horse is making: he ran like a 2:00 and change one and a quarter. That is like 20 lengths better than Justify's Derby effort, so it is interesting to see his progress being made. He's all racehorse. Just had no idea he was so good.
Totally makes sense, thank you. Horse A blew his load a bit whereas B is increasing it's pace at a much more important portion of the race. Which is why I assume you/we like our E2 horse angles b/c they're making moves at more seminal junctions of the race. Hopefully that's a correct interpretation of what you're trying to convey. Then again you know me, you'll give me 2+2 and I'll come up with 5 or 6, haha.
I am a certified half retard. Thanks for the patience as always my friend.
Nah bruv, you ain't half retard, Shark is just a genius. You'll find a lot of degenerates in horse racing but their IQ's are all off the charts. It's probably got a higher IQ median than MIT. Watch the show "Luck" about horse racing and done by a pony addict called David Milch, who has an IQ of 168 and also created Deadwood and NYPD Blue. It takes a lot of time to even be successful in this game, and even more awareness and intelligence. Once you get bit by the pony bug tho, your life is pretty much over. #Beware
