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GOLDREAM beats MEDICEAN MAN
Could you imagine a result like that in the halcyon years?
Mind you - there would not have been all these large and 'EVERYTHING has got a chance' fields in those days, either.
Could you imagine a result like that in the halcyon years?
Mind you - there would not have been all these large and 'EVERYTHING has got a chance' fields in those days, either.
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Totally agree onlooker:
Got into the game when Sharpo /Marwell and Moorestyle where @ their peak no other hoss really had a chance of winning the sprints when theses where around . Now its a lottery. |
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It doesn't help a three year old has a choice of 3 Group 1 sprints now
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2 I should say but three g1's for sprinters
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Overwatered surface - half the horses were scared sh1tless to gallop on it.
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Little more than top handicappers these days , very poor quality race , and this has been the case for some time now.
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Dajur and Lochsong
my 2 fav sprinters of all time. Either of those would have won today without coming off the snaff. |
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Spot On - sixtwosix - As emphasised by many of them also contesting the 'top' Sprint Handicaps - and turning those races into little more than a condensed, mixed weights, Listed race ... as opposed to the, by far more attractive, longer handicap spectacle that they, too, once were.
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After the AMERICAN beating the AUSTRALIAN in the Diamond Jubilee -
Just how ordinary has British Sprint racing become - compared to the halycon years gone by. Dayjur would be in despair. |
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Commonwealth winner might be different class but he has to show that performance was not just a one-off.
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Just look at all the winners of the July Cup through the 80's to highlight it ....any number of others....last tycoon, sheikh albadou...zilzal sprinting would give them a headstart today....more recently the Stravinsky's and mozarts would all gag up.
1980 Moorestyle 9 1981 Marwell 1982 Sharpo 1983 Habibti 1984 Chief Singer 1985 Never So Bold 1986 Green Desert 1987 Ajdal 1988 Soviet Star 1989 Cadeaux Genereux 1990 Royal Academy |
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yes, proper group horses in the 80s, just glorified handicappers these days.
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Have said it for a long time now,No such thing as a Consistent G1 Sprinter in ireland or the UK these days.
Different day different winner. |
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What about Sole Power ?
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Sole Power is a bookie horse of the same ilk as The Fugue
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Sole power only won back to back G1 races once in his career,Another hit and miss Sprinter.
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