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Twirling Candy Love....
Does he deserve all of this or not?
http://www.drf.com/blogs/twirling-candy-brilliance http://www.drf.com/blogs/best-horse-america |
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Automatic disqualification by order of the stewards on the recommendation of the track psychotherapist. Caracortado won a 9f race restricted to FL- and CA-breds. At least we know Free's not being subsidized by Jenny Craig (the way Jay Hovdey was by the Moss's), else he would have reserved that mantle for her other run-off, Sidney's Candy. |
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The only problem seems to be that Fluke only runs once every 6 months. How likely is it he'll show for the Kilroe?
Someone should take the ankle monitor off of Gary Tanaka. Then at least the hard knocker Proudinsky would probably make a few more starts per year. |
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If there is a best horse in America, that horse wouldn't have wins in only 1 state.
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His race yesterday was good but, as has been said already, he has to beat someone better than Dweebster before he's crowned the best horse on the face of the earth. |
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Whos better right now, anywhere from 7-9f. Im sure he will love 10f on dirt, not that other crap.
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Who would he need to beat? Twirling Candy would rip Morning Line's guts out. Morning Line is awesome his heart is amazing he just isnt fast enough. He now has lost to Dakota Phone and Giant Oak while running his A race!
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You've repressed the memory of the Goodwood. |
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These run off types that never learn to rate and use their natural ability as learned sometimes dont figure it out race one. But you knew that you simply didnt believe that Twirling Candy would "get it" but now he sits garden stalking trips and rates with ease. Imagine that John where's Yoko?
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The more you dig the deeper the hole gets.. Again,learning is a process. So while the Goodward was bad and the Strub was rough the San Anton was better and the Cap will be even better. maybe I can make it easier for you to understand FlippO the more he does it the better he gets. Does that work for you?
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Its not a case of the more "he does it, the better he gets", it's "the less he faces, the better he looks". It's a matter of him finding his friends. Note he has not beaten older horses. In that regard, he hasn't shown any dramatic improvement yet, either. I don't see much of a difference between the Goodwood Twirling Candy and the Strub Twirling Candy. If someone wants to break it down for me other than the deluded Number 1 Fan Freddy (next he'll be attributing some of Sidney's Candy's accomplishments to Twirling Candy), I'll be happy to listen. |
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Couldn't rate... learns Couldn't turn ...Does Couldn't run two turns..easily Now its "can't do against a certain quality of horse".. i guess if those horses never materialize you can never consider yourself incorrect.. How convienient John |
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He'll be cutback to sprints and flat miles by year's end, maybe then he'll realize his full potential (ie, a placing in the BC Sprint). I like how you use being able to negotiate the clubhouse turn without taking out half the field as some sort of landmark in a horse's career. Laughable. |
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Your posting skills are improving about as rapidly as you imagined Twirling Candy's racing skills have since last fall.
Again, a lot of this has to do with competition. Of course if he faces a bunch of cream puffs in the Big Cap, which is highly likely, he'll probably win. It won't prove anything. His superstar status is completely a product of the anemic CA racing industry. Just as Rail Trip's was last year. Back as recent as the early '90s, horses like Bertrando, In Excess, and Afternoon Deelites were in the position he was in, and he couldn't hold a candle to any of those. All 3 of those failed miserably in the Big Cap (in fact, they were also upset at odds-on in the Strub, when it was run at 10f). The fact that a horse like this has a chance to win a prestigious race like the Big Cap under such fair weather conditions, not to mention, already--with the aid of a superhighway--erasing Spectacular Bid's world record effort at 7f, is tragedy of the highest order in my eyes. |
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Rail Trip was never sound and the only person who deemed him a superstar was Team Z Who cares who raced in 1995 that was 16 years ago and while we all wished the times were different they arent. And BTW the Donn was a rag tag group of nobodys. So it isnt like east coast talent is overwhelming either. Now you want to cloud the issue with track conditions? The track is what the track is. You like the Calder surface better? They run 1:11 and the BSF is a 115. What do track records have to do with anything? |