Awesome, and won my unfortunately just mental bet. I hope Arrogate runs in the Oaklawn Handicap next year so I can see him on my annual trip to the Arkansas Derby. Baffert seems to like Oaklawn.
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Arrogate is HUGE. He looks like a big lazy horse. This horse could be anything if they ever find the bottom of him.[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=Texarkana;8922344]I guess this means I have to stop resisting and drink the Arrogate Kool-Aid… and Mike Smith sure knows how to find horses’ hidden gears.
I am wholeheartedly bummed Chrome lost, but what a match race.[/QUOTE]
Arrogate did not knock my eyeballs out in the paddock, but after the first turn when he was lying 3rd, I thought WOW I have never ever seen a horse move so easy. I said to Mr. Beach, “I think that’s the best moving horse I’ve ever seen.” And his move down the lane was phenomenal. I love Chrome, but WOW.
Is there a video up yet?
It would be a great rematch if Arrogate gets into the Pegasus.
I’ll still be betting on CC, but Arrogate is certainly on his way up.
Arrogate had CC by 1/2 length, but 3rd place was just under 11 lengths behind them.
One things for sure, this years BC races(both days) have sure been full of nail biting, come right down to the wire moments. This is possible the best year of BC races (overall).
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Arrogate is HUGE. He looks like a big lazy horse. This horse could be anything if they ever find the bottom of him.[/QUOTE]
Unbridled’s Song often produced that look. Nice they didn’t race him at 2 and gave him some time to grow into his frame.
He’s a grand runner. What a race!
You guys have to give some credit to the his Agnes line tail female. After all, it’s the MtDNA produces the cell’s energy. And Arrogate certainly had plenty of cellular energy.
(The Agnes family is one of, if not the, greatest female families in all of TB racing.) http://www.tbheritage.com/Portraits/LilyAgnes.html
http://www.tbheritage.com/HistoricDams/EngFoundationMares/Family16/Family16.html
Looking at the horses produced from this family in the TB Heritage article, one notices that they consistently seemed to pass on the jump.
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Arrogate ran up chrome’s butt and passed him with, what, a quarter furlong to go?[/QUOTE]
Less than that. I think the only race where there wasn’t a squeaker was the Turf where Highland Reel ran away with it. (I think we could have gotten up to the board, but I don’t think anyone was going to get to the winner!) They were so much the best I honestly had no idea who ran behind them, you couldn’t see it!
Thanks for all of your comments. For those of us unable to see the races…invaluable.
My non-race fan DH said he saw a race while at the gym where the horse “way in front suddenly went crazy” and lost. Does anyone have any idea what he’s talking about? Might have been a Friday race.
TIA.
Arrogate’s dam is for sale at the Fasig Tipton sale next week.
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Arrogate’s dam is for sale at the Fasig Tipton sale next week.
http://www.fasigtipton.com/catalogs/2016/1107/110.pdf[/QUOTE]
Her price just went up.
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Arrogate’s dam is for sale at the Fasig Tipton sale next week.
http://www.fasigtipton.com/catalogs/2016/1107/110.pdf[/QUOTE]
Oh my. I love the November sales!
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Her price just went up.[/QUOTE]
His Travers win had it high already, and he looked just as good today as he did then, though of course I know what you mean…
I hope so very much that he stays sound. He’s a corker!
It’s so nice to see a tall, long, lean, graceful colt, so much the good sort that his sire could get, given some time and then see to him go so well.
And only a 3 year old! He will be a huge beast when he matures.
I wonder, what do you (whom have an opinion on such matters) think of his dam’s match with Into Mischief?
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Thanks for all of your comments. For those of us unable to see the races…invaluable.
My non-race fan DH said he saw a race while at the gym where the horse “way in front suddenly went crazy” and lost. Does anyone have any idea what he’s talking about? Might have been a Friday race.
TIA.[/QUOTE]
It might have been What A View in the Breeders Cup Mile. He was leading for quite a ways and then faded fast, finishing last.
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His Travers win had it high already, and he looked just as good today as he did then, though of course I know what you mean…
I hope so very much that he stays sound. He’s a corker!
It’s so nice to see a tall, long, lean, graceful colt, so much the good sort that his sire could get, given some time and then see to him go so well.
And only a 3 year old! He will be a huge beast when he matures.[/QUOTE]
I don’t think he’s especially good-looking now, especially next to Chrome (until they keep one in racing until he’s a horse, it’s easy to forget how immature three-year-olds really are). But he’s not even close to being done growing if Baffert waited that long (he’s not someone afraid to run two-year-olds.) And he has a funny face. Sometimes they roan out funny…
And I would bet this does substantially raise her price–the Travers being what it is, that can be a fluke, time or no time (after all, the Bid still has the NA record and I’m still trying to figure out how that was possible…he did 1 1/4m in 1:57.8 in 1980) beating Chrome even narrowly and going to him THAT far in front of the field that you couldn’t see third says it was actual talent.
And I don’t know, I saw who she’s in foal to and went…"…Okay." Though Practical Joke just ran third in the Juvenile, Goldencents, Vyjack, and Vicars In Trouble obviously were money-makers. Which will probably help as well.
It was kind of bittersweet seeing the Keeneland ads and realizing how many fillies and mares are getting on a plane today or tomorrow and heading to the sale ring…
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Thanks for all of your comments. For those of us unable to see the races…invaluable.
My non-race fan DH said he saw a race while at the gym where the horse “way in front suddenly went crazy” and lost. Does anyone have any idea what he’s talking about? Might have been a Friday race.
TIA.[/QUOTE]
Sounds like the observations of a non horse person who watches 2 races a year, if they happen to be on where they are.
Agree it was probably What A View in the Mile. That one set QH worthy fractions before running out of gas, looked like he was running backwards compared to the rest of the field as they closed on fuller tanks and left him in the dust.
At least he had the excuse of blistering speed wearing him out…unlike some of the also rans in many of these races who were so far back they weren’t even running in the same race as the top horses. Don’t recall a BC with so many so badly beaten with others so spectacular grinding it out down the stretch. That was alot of races decided by a whisker.
Probably the first time I’ve watched ALL the races, so many were such great races…
Thanks so much. It’s true my DH isn’t a real race fan but he enjoyed the two days we spent in Ireland at the Curragh and Longines Champions Weekend. He even recognized several of the entries who’d come over from across the pond. Got to give him credit for that!
I do give him credit, at least he watched and shared his observation with you.
I wanted Chrome to win so much! I was convinced Arrogate’s Travers was a fluke, but clearly I was wrong. What a match-up between those two. I hope Arrogate stays in training and runs next year.
