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Cape Blanco
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One to look forward to reve
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thats his good self
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Ima I agree with a lot of what you say but if you notice your example about trials are more about Derby horses than guineas horses, the guineas trials today are almost obsolete to be almost pointless?.
Question how can you say Hurricane Run was unlucky when Pride was held up right out the back and absolutely flew home? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlPB3X3Nmcs |
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The trouble with the guineas though silvergreaser is that they come so early in the season and some runners will even miss the trials and go straight to the race itself. Plus the guineas trials and the guineas itself tend to be run closer together so maybe they won't want to overdo the horses for those trials but earlier we were on about Cape Blanco and trials and his was for the Derby. Then you've got the additional angle with the guineas of whether the horses have trained on or do they really get the mile and so on. By the time the Derby trials come around then many of these kind of questions have been answered and I would have thought with the longer break between the trials and the Derby that the horses are a lot more tuned up for Derby trials.
Hurricane Run was unlucky because Fallon went around the inside to save ground and then couldn't get a run. Then when Deep Impact went forward, Fallon had been waiting for that gap to be made but just as it was and he wanted to edge out, Pride came and took it and meant Fallon had to drop back and edge out even wider. Pride was also a little unlucky too in her run too as then Rail Link cut across her but in general that just makes my point about hard luck stories in a race like the Arc. Fallon gave HR basically the same ride both years but got the split on the inside in the year that they won it. I still though can't really go along with your thinking that Stoute would do anything iffy in the King George though just because he had 2 runners in the race and he would have a lot more to lose if the Adbullah horse went from his stable then if the Highclere ones did. Harbinger had only won at Gr 2 and 3 level before that and I don't think anyone saw him winning the KG as impressively as he did. |
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Nearly time for bed, but my recollection has it 3 to 1 in Pride's favour, Hurricane Run was left floudering behind her in the Champion Stakes?, the only defeat was yet another unlucky run from Pride in Hurricane Runs Arc victory.
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Yeah I mean it wasn't meant as a comparison about which is the better horse or anything like that, all I was really responding to was when it was suggested about laying SYT in the Arc then I was only pointing out that I don't think it's the best race to lay in, as there can be a few hard lucky stories in it each year and Hurricane Run was just one of those that I mentioned.
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