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[Danzig]

Originally Posted by ArlJim78

cannon he was in a drive and if he would have been able to find room to the outside he could have continued the drive and moved on by quite easily, however he ran out of room and Jara had to stop the drive and just coast, waiting for room. that is where i came up with eleven seconds.
yes he was still riding, but he was not running his race at his speed during this time. maybe I'm the only person that looks at it this way. its the length of time that the horse was prohibited from running like he can.

that's what i was asking about...had he not lost momentum while waiting for a hole, and then the check....i think the final time is out of whack due to more than just the clip. glad i'm not the only one thinking along those lines.

[Pointg5]

One thing that I didn't like was that he was far off of the pace, he's been a stalker in the past. Once you see a horse that would stalk start to come off the pace, it's usually a bad sign. It was only one race and they were going fast up front, so it may be nothing...

[The Indomitable DrugS]

I actually think the trouble was a little more serious than BTW and Cannon seem to.

However, the way the race was run must be taken into context when evaluating the trip. Let's assume that he gets through perfectly on the far turn, and goes on to win consideribly easier....

If that would have happened, the horse would have been the beneficiary of the absolute DREAM trip.

That very fast early pace played to his advantage more so than any other horse in that race, he would have saved every inch of ground on a day when some think the rail was the best place to be, and would have roared away from the field though still very moderate late fractions for that kind of horse.

It was obvious before the race, that this horse would get a setup today, and this was a comically moderate field for a Grade 1 race. The only horse with any talent in the field, Chatain, was stretching out and going two-turns for the first time in his career. Nevermind, that he's bred to run about five furlongs, and was life and death to hold off confirmed sprinter Sir Greeley last time out....while racing at a mile.

This race was tailor-made for Invasor. His next one will not be. Horses with his style often run below expectations at Nad al Sheba's speed friendly track. The track suits main rival Discreet Cat much better, and also Premium Tap. Unless someone odd-ball speed horse is entered to force a strong pace, this horse will seriously be up against it in the World Cup.

I guess I'm already making excuses why he won't run well in the Dubai World Cup. All the people who think I have some kind of bias against this horse (I bet him in the Pimlico Special off the Dubai race for crying out loud!) can feel free to remind me how up against it I thought he was, if he does win the World Cup.

[blackthroatedwind]

I pretty much agree with you about the trip and what I was sort of trying to say was that the trouble he had was almost completely mitigated by his unbelievably good trip in every other facet of the race. If you take the ENTIRE trip into context he did not have a particularly bad trip.

Like I said before, people frequently mistake one incident of trouble, without taking everything that happened in the race into account, and declare one trip considerably worse than others. This is a mistake and the main way that most people misevaluate trips. In this case it was the HOY that had this very noticable trouble and that has GREATLY superceded everything else that happened in the race. It shouldn't.....and it doesn't.

[The Indomitable DrugS]

The way a few people have gone overboard on Invasor's performance yesteday, reminds me when people were calling Bailey's ride on You in the Test Stakes "one of the greatest rides of all-time"

Maybe his ride on her from the 3/8ths pole home was one of the all-time greats, but they seem to forget it wasn't such a good ride for the first half mile.

[blackthroatedwind]

Originally Posted by The Indomitable DrugS

The way a few people have gone overboard on Invasor's performance yesteday, reminds me when people were calling Bailey's ride on You in the Test Stakes "one of the greatest rides of all-time"

Maybe his ride on her from the 3/8ths pole home was one of the all-time greats, but they seem to forget it wasn't such a good ride for the first half mile.

No doubt....that was a pitiful ride by Bailey and if not for utter incompetence she would never have been in the position where it took a herculean effort for her to win. She was tons the best that day.

I imagine that privately Bailey probably had a laugh at the ridiculous false praise he recieved for a ride he supremely butchered.

[hoovesupsideyourhead]

Originally Posted by blackthroatedwind

No doubt....that was a pitiful ride by Bailey and if not for utter incompetence she would never have been in the position where it took a herculean effort for her to win. She was tons the best that day.

I imagine that privately Bailey probably had a laugh at the ridiculous false praise he recieved for a ride he supremely butchered.

i miss jerry at gulf....his 1/9s that run for the first 1/4..made many a nice score...........

[blackthroatedwind]

I miss the good riders. Bailey, prior to his last couple years, was a brilliant rider.

Originally Posted by blackthroatedwind

No doubt....that was a pitiful ride by Bailey and if not for utter incompetence she would never have been in the position where it took a herculean effort for her to win. She was tons the best that day.

I imagine that privately Bailey probably had a laugh at the ridiculous false praise he recieved for a ride he supremely butchered.

Baily have a laugh at being overrated? Did you read his homage to himself a/k/a autobiography? A more self-absorbed creature never walked - even his accounting of his rampant alcoholism and the effect on his marriage is self-absorbed. Although he shares plenty of colorful, "minor" stories, he completely skips his stint at the Ascot race meet riding Dubai Millenium, most likely because their turf press wasn't impressed with him. He twists himself into knots justifying his losing ride on Cigar and choice to chase that suicide ride by Nakatini. His reasoning falls apart because a sensible rider would have known Nakatani's horse was going to back up, not run away with the thing, and with what Baily knew of Cigar's diminishing powers, letting Nakatani self-destruct was the only option. Cigar probably would have lost that day anyhow, per Baily, but his rationale for pressing the issue is absurd.

[blackthroatedwind]

Originally Posted by Dhaze

Baily have a laugh at being overrated? Did you read his homage to himself a/k/a autobiography? A more self-absorbed creature never walked - even his accounting of his rampant alcoholism and the effect on his marriage is self-absorbed. Although he shares plenty of colorful, "minor" stories, he completely skips his stint at the Ascot race meet riding Dubai Millenium, most likely because their turf press wasn't impressed with him. He twists himself into knots justifying his losing ride on Cigar and choice to chase that suicide ride by Nakatini. His reasoning falls apart because a sensible rider would have known Nakatani's horse was going to back up, not run away with the thing, and with what Baily knew of Cigar's diminishing powers, letting Nakatani self-destruct was the only option. Cigar probably would have lost that day anyhow, per Baily, but his rationale for pressing the issue is absurd.

You're probably right....he isn't the most self-critical and introspective fellow out there.

[Gander]

Think of it this way, had not Bailey given that very bad ride on "You" the first part of the race, we would have not seen that amazing heads bobbing on the wire finish between her and Carson Hollow.

That finish needs to be seen to be appreciated. What a race.