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Old 03-03-2007, 07:06 PM
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I realize I'm not looking at this objectively, and the wounds he inflicted are still open, but does anybody else find what Pletcher did today to be outrageous.. I'm thinking of asking for a refund from Thorograph, because Pletcher's horses rendered them meaningless!!! I realize he's got great horses, but THIS was ABSURD! Please let me know if I'm the only one who feels this way.
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Old 03-03-2007, 07:07 PM
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I realize I'm not looking at this objectively, and the wounds he inflicted are still open, but does anybody else find what Pletcher did today to be outrageous.. I'm thinking of asking for a refund from Thorograph, because Pletcher's horses rendered them meaningless!!! I realize he's got great horses, but THIS was ABSURD! Please let me know if I'm the only one who feels this way.
No, you're certainly not.
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Old 03-03-2007, 07:14 PM
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Thanks, Grits.. I mean Deadly Dealer 44 to the half in a 7.5 furlong race, draws off by 7? Takes my Song 44 to the half in a 7 furlong race, keeps going? Half Ours, 43 to the half in a 7 furlong race, doesn't stop? Come on!!
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Old 03-03-2007, 07:18 PM
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Thanks, Grits.. I mean Deadly Dealer 44 to the half in a 7.5 furlong race, draws off by 7? Takes my Song 44 to the half in a 7 furlong race, keeps going? Half Ours, 43 to the half in a 7 furlong race, doesn't stop? Come on!!

the other two I know nothing about....but please don't tell me you thought Half Ours was gonna stop
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Old 03-03-2007, 07:22 PM
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Old 03-03-2007, 09:13 PM
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Old 03-03-2007, 07:24 PM
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Kev, I respect your opinion, and maybe Half Ours ends up being a super horse, but yes, I thought he might slow down a little. His career consists of 3 starts in 3 years, so I did consider it a possibility.
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Old 03-03-2007, 07:26 PM
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Could the day have been any better for Pletcher...? not a whole lot.
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Old 03-03-2007, 07:28 PM
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Kev, I respect your opinion, and maybe Half Ours ends up being a super horse, but yes, I thought he might slow down a little. His career consists of 3 starts in 3 years, so I did consider it a possibility.

and I see your train of thought. I think he could be a special horse if not for his fragility. I just watched the replay and he got those fractions fairly easily...IMO...looked like he was hardly working at all for that first 1/2
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Old 03-03-2007, 10:03 PM
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I realize I'm not looking at this objectively, and the wounds he inflicted are still open, but does anybody else find what Pletcher did today to be outrageous.. I'm thinking of asking for a refund from Thorograph, because Pletcher's horses rendered them meaningless!!! I realize he's got great horses, but THIS was ABSURD! Please let me know if I'm the only one who feels this way.
Chalk trainers like this will be stuffing chalk down your throat until they die,or you die(or until you stop following racing.)Your eyes aren't deceiving you(their horses often don't feel fatigue.)
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Old 03-04-2007, 07:03 PM
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Your eyes aren't deceiving you(their horses often don't feel fatigue.)
And Pletcher's horses appear not to fatigue because he...
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