Posted on 04/30/2014 11:20:47 AM PDT by kingattax
Secretariat is God/Clapton in horse heaven
Not even a hair of debate....what a horse
Man o War second
Both boys were chestnuts btw....like my own TB Major
Best split tail race horse.....Ruffian.....pretty fast for a girl
Sorry, love the horses, but that was lame.
He would have if not for three things, in no particular order of importance - the loose shoe, the quarter crack, and Desormeaux’s uncharacteristically bad ride. The horse was more than good enough. He barely broke a sweat in cruising to victory in the first two races.
I’ll Have Another, on the other hand, would have easily, in my opinion, won the Triple Crown had he raced. He’s an underrated horse as it was, but that Belmont was among the slowest in history and the track conditions were fine.
It would be tough, since Man O' War didn't run in the Derby. Sam Riddle thought the first weekend in May was too early to ask a three-year-old to go a mile and a quarter. Hard to argue with him about that.
Been here 14 years
Been yelled at and cursed
Banned over amnesty for a year...
Called racist 100s of times
Anti Semite once or twice....
Zionist a few too....
Misogynist many many times....
Neoconfederate a gazillion times...
Sexist....a fair amount
Dude or pops many times....
Been called Godless or doper hippie too....odd considering
But never has lame been tossed my way....thanks
Here’s your dinner mint.
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