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Lester Shy posted:Any idea what time the race actually starts? I don't know if I can make it through two more hours of pre-race nonsense. About 6:45, I think. Also, OP I believe that second race won by Close Hatches was the Ogden Phipps, not the Ogden Fifths. I was very excited to see Palace Malice win again. He's a monster of a horse. Sucrose fucked around with this message at 22:47 on Jun 7, 2014 |
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"Nobody will ever call this horse a Secretariat.......but, he is a chestnut!"
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Jun 7, 2014 23:39
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I've noticed during the triple crown races that it doesn't start until the fat man bugles.
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Jun 7, 2014 23:42
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Grittybeard posted:Wicked Strong isn't down with this walking stuff. It's not true for Wicked Strong (or California Chrome) but a lot of times the names are a combination of or play on the sire and dam's names, which is why a lot of them are so random-sounding.
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Jun 7, 2014 23:49
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Josh Lyman posted:Did they just say there were 3 cases for 3 trophies? Isn't it just 1 trophy? The cases go inside each other, like those Russian dolls. (Not really)
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Jun 7, 2014 23:53
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Josh Lyman posted:Don't they just use artificial insemination? Nope! Natural breeding only for racehorses.
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Jun 7, 2014 23:54
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Happy Noodle Boy posted:Chrome got boxed in early on and that was all there is. Nah, he could have fired at the end and he didn't, he was tiring.
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Jun 8, 2014 00:04
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Excuses, excuses.
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Josh Lyman posted:Don't they give something to the horses that helps them shed water weight right before the race? Yes, the drug Lasix. It's hosed up and North American racing needs to clean up its act.
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Jun 8, 2014 00:08
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AsInHowe posted:
Wasn't there some famous athlete who had a painting commissioned of himself as a centaur? Please tell me I'm not imagining this.
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Shimrra Jamaane posted:Yes... A-Rod... hence the photoshop. I thought it was just a play on the horse in the race named General A Rod. That's too good.
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oldskool posted:That it's bullshit to gently caress over It's not like that's not the way they've run the three races since forever. If horses can't win all three because there's more good horses competing...well, too bad? All the horses are fairly evenly matched? I don't exactly think they should rig it to make more Triple Crown winners. Sucrose fucked around with this message at 00:19 on Jun 8, 2014 |
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Peanut President posted:It is bullshit. Imagine if you can sit your starters the whole season then just show up at the World Series/Stanley Cup/Super Bowl with your main guys who have been rested all season. It's loving garbage and it's no surprise that no one watches horse racing anymore. But the Triple Crown winners had all beaten new horses in the Belmont, with the same intervals between the three races, those horses were just that much better than the rest of the horses their age. Also if you only allowed horses that competed in all three to race, you'd have like 5 horses left in the Belmont, as every year the owners of a decent portion of the Kentucky Derby field decide afterwards "Nah, my horse really isn't up to this level of competition right now, I think I'll go somewhere softer." And keep in mind the Triple Crown isn't really "fair" in the first place, it's only open to 3-year-olds, for one, and most horses are more developed and faster at 4. Really, if you want to see the fastest horses on dirt, you've got to wait till the Breeder's Cup Classic in the fall, it doesn't have any stupid age restrictions. Sucrose fucked around with this message at 00:33 on Jun 8, 2014 |
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Chokes McGee posted:This would be very silly and I hope it's not the point you're actually trying to make. I can't even tell anymore, I'm still reeling from that epic meltdown. In my opinion the real problem is there's so many horses, and the horses are bred so very, very similarly to each other, and the speed of race horses has been dead flat for 70 years, that no horse is ever a true standout among the others. The number of foals for the racing industry had been rising and rising every year until the recession, so there's just no shortage of them, ever. They all come from practically the same bloodlines. They're (almost) all descended from Secretariat or Seattle Slew or both, multiple times over due to inbreeding. Most of them are bred specifically to run a mile to a mile-and-a-quarter on dirt, specifically. In my opinion that's the reason for it. You churn out thousands of nearly identically-bred horses, all geared towards a handful of the same races, and the best of the best of those are going to have very similar results. Horses won triple crowns in the 70s because there weren't as many of them to compete with.
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Moktaro posted:Looks like Team Dumbass (Stables) is blasting off again! Yeah, the horse that won the Belmont (Tonalist) didn't qualify for the Kentucky Derby, he won a fairly major race a couple weeks after the Derby and then got into the Belmont based on that. At the time the Triple Crown races are run, the horses are still really young and maturing, so it wouldn't really be fair to bar horses peaking later from running in the Preakness or Belmont just because they didn't win races months before that would qualify them for the Derby.
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