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Originally Posted by ateamstupid
This isn't really a hypothetical.. It's based on stuff that already happened, and is actually one of the smartest and most intriguing posts I've seen on here in a while.
Smarty was unfairly sabotaged in the Belmont, but Afleet Alex ran on a dead rail for most of the Derby, and they both missed the TC by just a length.
I'm gonna give Smarty the slight nod, because the circumstance that cost him the TC is a much more tangible than the one that cost 'Alex. While I don't dispute that the rail was dead that day at CD, who knows how much it cost him and HOW dead it was? Smarty, on the other hand, was clearly sabotaged and it certainly cost him the TC in my eyes.
Very good post.
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unfairly sabotaged?
Ive never heard of anything as ridiculous ateam.
the other jocks tried to do what they could to get him beat, but thats not unfair.
thats racing.
its not lke Zito or the whitneys paid off the other contestants.
He got beat by a better horse. A Travers winner.
no different than when VGallop beat RQuiet or when Touch Gold beat SCharm.
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