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07-09-2007, 04:33 PM
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Hoss, I'm sorry. (Seriously.) Back to topic... Perfect Drift needs to be retired.
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07-09-2007, 07:32 PM
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I realize that much.
But, it's the kind of year that makes me nostalgic for performances like PD's first four on dirt during his 4yo season. I think people tend to forget the kind of races he ran at that time. He won his first dirt race at four in the Foster, beating Mineshaft by a half length, running a 117 Beyer. Next out Met Mile winner, and three time Grade 1 winner that season Aldebaran was 3rd beaten double digits in that race. In his 3rd start of the year on dirt, he defeated Congaree in hand, in what was an awesome performance. When you look this year, we are through a half a season, and Accountforthegold is the only older horse to run two Beyers of 109 or more going a route of ground...it's amusing. All the hanging issues started the next year.
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07-09-2007, 07:42 PM
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I thought Perfect Drift might have been the morning line favorite for the Breeders Cup Classic during his 4yo season....I went back and checked and he was the 2nd choice.
BREEDERS' CUP CLASSIC - POWERED BY DODGE Total Purse: $4 million; 1 1/4 miles Post Horse Jockey Trainer M/L Odds 1 Evening Attire J. Velazquez Patrick J. Kelly 15-1 2 Pleasantly Perfect A. Solis Richard E. Mandella 10-1 3 Volponi J. Santos Phillip G. Johnson 15-1 4 Funny Cide J. Krone Barclay Tagg 8-1 5 Hold That Tiger E. Prado Aidan P. O'Brien 12-1 6 Dynever C. Nakatani Christophe Clement 15-1 7 Perfect Drift G. Stevens Murray W. Johnson 7-2 8 Medaglia d'Oro J. Bailey Robert J. Frankel 3-1 9 Congaree P. Velenzuela Bob Baffert 6-1 10 Ten Most Wanted P. Day Wallace Dollase 4-1 That's a pretty decent field right there...even without Mineshaft. If people remember back to 2003---Murray Johnson kept saying he was going to skip the Breeders Cup and run Perfect Drift in the Melbourne Cup instead. To me, that was pure insanity on his part.
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07-09-2007, 08:30 PM
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Of course it is.
"The Hawk" was the greatest. Although, the guy who posts here under the moniker "The Hawk" is a bit of a tool.
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Hard to see on my laptop, avatars are awful small. Very cool.
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07-09-2007, 08:44 PM
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Congrats to Brass Hat and connections in his win.
Murray Johnson, imo, not great trainer but decent, better than some trainers but not others. He at least gave P. Drift the chance to run against the best horses, not find the easy spots to just make money and wins, like some trainers we all know wouldve done. My thanks to Murray and Perfect Drift for the great races we all enjoyed seeing.
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What are they going to say....."Come see....the horse who ran 3rd in the Derby!" Unless FC was in the race as well, I don't think they'd alter a race for Perfect Drift.
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