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Quite happy with my race reading skills, see the top two year old thread for the only one to spot the Fahey Royal Ascot winner, thanks for your concern though.
At the end of the day maybe Steinbeck isn't as good as I hoped but there's no point betting on the obvious as you will lose long term doing that and I felt (and still do) his Dewhurst run was full of promise. Things clearly didn't pan out right for him on Tuesday with the pacemaker failing in his duty and losing a shoe but whatever happens he probably isn't quite up to Canford's quality. Anyway, best of luck with your betting/gloating over losers. |
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best of luck with your betting/gloating over losers.
not gloating over a loser ben10,just drawing comparisons with the immediate response to SNA being beaten and the total lack of any response after Steinbeck's defeat. It was very easy to ridicule anyone who had doubts about the real ability of Steinbeck by alluding to the amount of 'promise' in his defeats. Is it more that the promise *had* to be there as Aidan had talked him up so there must be something in that? As always there are the excuse trotted out for Steinbeck, he lost a shoe, pacemaker was slow to break, had to make his own running etc. But when will the excuses run out and why does a horse of such promise and ability need everything his own way? CC also lost a shoe, didn't stop him. Perhaps Steinbeck is less SNA and more Hawk Wing, lots of excuses for him too. Though at least he was placed in races. As mentioned above, SNA has the results in the book not just the 'potential'. Is it so hard to admit that hype swayed your opinion? I myself was willing to admit SNA had disappointed my expectations in the GNS. I have my doubts that Steinbeck is Gr 1 class let alone near Canford Cliffs quality. |
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As I said above he's probably not up to Canford Cliffs class. I've barely mentioned St Nick after the Guineas apart from in relation to the Derby, my last post is the first from me on this thread. The whole point of looking for horses like Steinbeck was to take on the short priced favourite who both me and Kirk were quite firm on being over rated in the betting, we got him beat and in this case there was a massive value winner which worked nicely for me.
One final point on Steinbeck; Lillie Langtry ran very similar the day after in the Irish 1000 Guineas and she improved to win. Starspangledbanner improved massively also from his reappearance, as have a few of the stables others. It was never beyond the realms of possibility that Steinbeck would do the same (given his injury problems) and maybe he still will one day, we will see, as always I will make my judgement race by race, but following that pattern (I didn't back Lillie fwiw) you'd be in a nice profit. |