No talking from Dutrow!!!
I hate ABC
This is the worst reporting I’ve ever seen. Instead of showing the WINNER OF THE RACE, and the WINNING OWNERS and WINNING JOCKEY, what the hell does the cameraman do?? Follow Big Brown down the tunnel to his stall. GREAT fricking race reporting. Just GREAT.
Jim McKay is turning over in his grave, if he’s even in it yet.
ETA: NBC, not ABC
So what were the payouts on the exacta/tri etc? They must be astronomical.
Actually I think Dutrow’s only answer was “don’t even think about it”
Jeez all of you are acting like it’s a 50/50 chance for a horse to finish a horse race and not die. As if he would have died had Kent not pulled him up. It takes awhile to recover from a hard effort, and the horse wasn’t going to finish well, and nobody’s livelihood depended on winning some money. It was easier on the horse to pull him up, not a life-saving move.
Really huh Guin? They haven’t interviewed ANYBODY that has to do with the WINNER!
Amen.
I’m disappointed, but that was an amazing wire to wire victory from a longshot- what the fuh?
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disappointment but silver lining is the horse is alive, the jockey took the horse in mind and we have another year to dream[/QUOTE]
Now start the dreams for Nicanor to start where Barbaro left off! Wouldn’t it be wonderful if Bobby’s little brother did it! Or at least finished it!
Good for Kent.
This was a huge disappointment.
It was NOT a huge tragedy.
Kent’s a good man.
This was my first thought, too…
notbred for itf it?
Beyer wrote this morning, that ae, BB was not bred for the distance, could he:confused: be right?
Thank you.
I think it was obvious in the turn that there was not enough horse there to win. You could see he slapped him on the shoulder once and didn’t get the jump he wanted. If the vet check comes up clean I wonder what the stewards will have to say about the horse not being ridden out.
I felt so sorry for Zito and the Birdstone connections in Smarty’s year. They almost looked like they felt they needed to apologize to America for winning the race. Media focus was so much on SJ. So history repeats itself with Zito. Still, you’d think the network would do some things on the winner.
Glad for Zito. A class act, and I believe he’s from New York, too. Hometown win.
Kent sayed he felt BB was not right, not lame, but not right… so he had cause to pull him up… no case for the stewards there.
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Jeez all of you are acting like it’s a 50/50 chance for a horse to finish a horse race and not die. As if he would have died had Kent not pulled him up. It takes awhile to recover from a hard effort, and the horse wasn’t going to finish well, and nobody’s livelihood depended on winning some money. It was easier on the horse to pull him up, not a life-saving move.
Thank you.
I think it was obvious in the turn that there was not enough horse there to win. You could see he slapped him on the shoulder once and didn’t get the jump he wanted. If the vet check comes up clean I wonder what the stewards will have to say about the horse not being ridden out.
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I realize it wasn’t a lifesaving measure, but there’s nothing wrong with giving kudos for good horsemanship. :yes:
SERIOUSLY!! Has any horse ever done that before, wire to wire? MAYBE SOME OF US WOULD LIKE TO KNOW!!
Uh oh, asking Nick Zito if he’d run a horse with a quarter crack.
The woman behind Lapenta is killing that gum.:lol: Give it a rest will ya.
How could he not be bred for the distance? He’s a 3x3 to Northern Dancer, through Nureyev (European classic middle distance turf anyone???.. hello!!! and Danzig (sire of Danehill… top middle distance sire the world has ever seen… hello!) and a 3x4 to Damascus.
What horse in that field was better bred for 1½m?
Am enjoying listening to Mr. Zito. Classy, so obviously knowledgable and not just spewing BS like RD, who mostly likes to talk trash.
