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Originally Posted by Danzig
i'm not quite sure why you think my post was a specific attack on you. my point was a general one; these reactions occur fairly often, from a sizable segment of fans. if you wish to think it was pointed at you, and only you, that's your issue, not mine. i wasn't suggesting he was my pick for anything in future, my suggestion was that one race a career/season/ campaign does not make. we've all seen horses not lift a hoof one race, and then run lights out later. witness afleet alex in arkansas with an inexplicable bad run, and then almost winning the triple crown as one example. i have no idea as yet who my fla derby pick would be; i don't start making selections ahead of time for any race.
and what does mott have to do with it? i posted his comments after the race about his horse to show he has no intention of stopping. i thought some might be interested in his comments.
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I thought you directed your post to me because I was the one who suggested (immediately after a race which was incredibly disappointing to me) that Mott pull THAS from the trail. If you weren't, I apologize. In any case, regardless of what I think of the horse, he's going to the Florida Derby. I would be surprised if he ran well because he should have run better than he did yesterday (if I recall, AA had a fever in that bad race he ran)........and now I also question how far he wants to go. He's speedy and doesn't seem all that willing to rate; he was closer to the pace than I hoped he'd be. I guess we'll have to wait and see, but that wasn't the kind of race I expected from the colt at all.