Sunday Silence-Kentucky Derby
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What happened in Easy Goer's Belmont Stakes blowout,runaway win and in this Derby over a muddy track spoke for themselves. Easy Goer was the vastly faster racehorse.Easy Goer ran seven or eight 120+ or higher beyers(DOUBLE more than any horse since Bid, including Ghostzapper,Skip Away,Cigar,Holy Bull,Alysheba,John Henry,SS,etc) in his career, while SS ran ONE! Despicably bad and admittedly despicable riding by Pat Day=the great equalizer,&cost the better horse by an inch and desperate neck.
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Scoreboard never lies? It sure doesn't! Noor beat Citation 4 of 5 races. Beau Purple beat Kelso 3 of 4 races. Damascus beat Dr. Fager 2 of 4 races.Big Spruce and Wajima beat Forego 2 of 3 races. Interco beat John Henry 2 of 3 races. Formal Gold beat Skip Away 4 of 6 races. Akureyri beat Pleasant Colony 3 of 4 races. Scoreboard never lies.
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Thank you USA from JAPAN.Thank you very much for the wonderful gift.
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Absolutely, Easy Goer was far superior than ss at any distance over 10F. At 9.5F in the Preakness and 10F in the Classic, Day's typically atrocious riding(also see Sky Classic,Turkoman,Java Gold,Forty Niner,Menifee,Heavenly Prize,Seeking the Gold,Paradise Creek,Surfside,Banshee Breeze,etc) cost him by a nose and desperation neck vs. an also great in ss. But on a funky,peanut buttery,muddy Churchill track,both Is it True and ss were better than EG, very bad ankles,spinning his wheels.
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Yep he is. Two all time greats. This race, the whole field looked like they were struggling mightily in the mud. Steve Haskins said, "Easy Goer had horrible ankles & was just floundering in the Churchill mud twice." Easy Goer was about ten or more lengths better than his stablemate Awe Inspiring,and that's how close they came here.S.S. handled this mud.Mud is different everywhere.
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Sunday Silence is a legendary sire in Japan.
I have said it before, Easy Goer was far superior than SS at any distance over 10F. And in the Preakness at 9.5F and Classic at 10F, two atrocious rides got him beat a nose and neck, but over a funky, peanut buttery muddy Churchill track, both Is It True and SS were better than EG.
DELMARCLUB1 1 year ago 18
Hey, you qoute the Bloodhorse book,and he will always be mentioned with the greatest of all times, but you remember who stated,"Easy Goer, a nose and desperation neck(due to typically atrocious PDay riding) away from being mentioned in the same reverential breath with Man O'War,Secretariat(who did lose three races at three),Citation(who lost four of five to Noor),Dr. Fager(lost two of four to Damascus),Forego(lost two of three),Kelso(lost three of four),and his campaign acclaimed the best ever."
DELMARCLUB1 8 months ago 8