Is Grasshopper a walk over?

[King Glorious]

Originally Posted by miraja2

Speak for yourself man. I have had a ton of bad weekends in a row, but finally had a decent day today.
Of course, picking the "upset of the year" always helps. There was only one problem though.......it was in no way the upset of the year.

I can't think of a bigger one.

[King Glorious]

Originally Posted by DaHoss9698

Than Grasshopper getting beat? Come on man.

I don't think much of Grasshopper. But I can't think of a race this year where a horse was beaten when he towered over, on paper going in, his field as much as Grasshopper did.

[letswastemoney]

Originally Posted by King Glorious

I don't think much of Grasshopper. But I can't think of a race this year where a horse was beaten when he towered over, on paper going in, his field as much as Grasshopper did.

He had 2 high figures. It's not like Street Sense who has shown a reliability to run in the 100s in nearly all his races. Grasshopper had 2 high figures at the same exact track. I didn't see him as towering over anything, even though I thought he was the likely winner.

[miraja2]

Originally Posted by King Glorious

I can't think of a bigger one.

There is simply no way that horse should have been 1/5.
6/5 maybe....but 1/5 was ridiculous.
Personally I just don't see this as that big of an upset.
Off the top of my head, the biggest upset I can remember this year was 80/1 Spotsgone winning the G3 Hanshin Cup at Arlington over several pretty decent horses including the horse dubbed the, "best polytrack horse in the world," Lewis Michael.

[Danzig]

Originally Posted by King Glorious

I can't think of a bigger one.

maybe dominican beating street sense? or rags losing to lear's princess. or maybe even discreet cat losing to everyone in dubai--just to name a few.