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Originally Posted by PaceAdvantage
No...I'd still be pointing out how slow he was running late...
And if the jock was asking him late (which, apparently, he was), do you really think he would have run markedly faster? I don't.
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hhmmm, maybe...
i watched the race in person, and i've watched the replay a dozen times--i agree with tom lamarra that the horse was on cruise control--if you and others disagree, fine.
btw, how many times did you count that he was whipped in the stretch in all that serious late asking of which you speak?
i counted a whopping 4 times that the jock went to the whip (left handed) at the top of the stretch after the turn (where he had gone to it right handed few times in quick succession, as the other horses seemed on the verge of catching up), then it seemed to me that he sat pretty still until he twirled the whip as they crossed the finish line.
i don't know if hansen would have gone faster if seriously asked late. based on what i saw, he wasn't seriously asked ever in that race--he ran his own race from start to finish.
but i do know that for a second lifetime start,
and for a start that came only 2 weeks after his previous race,
and for a race that went 23.8, 23. 1, and 24.1 for the the first three quarters,
and the fact that many two year olds have trouble maintaining speed for longer than 6-7 furlongs (because they are still just wee little babies after all)--the race was pretty impressive, and plenty of folks who get paid to tell people what they think about races, agree with me on that. as i said before, if you don't agree, fine.
but i also still feel that the level of poo-pooing the horse and the race in this thread was not reasonable, nor was it rational (to paraphrase one of the posters), it was disproportionate. and based on comments by those same people regarding other horses in other threads, a tad hypocritical too. but i am happy that i provided so many of you source to pile on and earn points in your quest to "win the internet" and bond with each other. you've got a long way to go to catch up with 4 chan but you'll get there eventually.
to the pedant calling me a beginner--i've been around horses and tracks since i was baby (foolish pleasure and I were born on the same exact day in the same exact year). pro-tip: the dixie union colt is far more likely to cause the general public to loose money and faith in this sport, than hansen is, given that dixie unions don't tend to like to go very long
at all. you might want to add pedigree analayis to your fair and balanced pedantry next time (but hey, union rags raced well in NY going 6 furlongs, and breeding...well, pish posh, i know right?).
to the person who made the comment about horses "becoming white"-- i acknowledged that hansen is a grey in my post. but all greys progressively fade with age, even dark ones like monarchos--here he is then:
http://www.homeonthenorthshore.com/Monarchos.html (handsome fellow, huh?), and here he is now:
http://www.bloodhorse.com/stallion-r...39&origin=link (that's "white" in my book).
and here is hansen:
http://www.horseracingnation.com/horse/Hansen (he's only a smidge away from "white" now, so maybe by the time the KY derby roles around, he will be even whiter, ergo, to the vast unwashed multitudes both denigrated and protected by the same posters in this thread (and sometimes even in the same post), he'll be the "white horse flying on the front.") i realize that hansen will always officially be a grey, but that doesn't mean he won't really be white. it's kind of like cherokee purple tomatoes, they aren't really purple tbh, they're red, but they're classified as purple in seed catalogs. funny how that works, huh?
anywho--i'll take my 10-1 on hansen in the BCJ and full responsibility for misleading the millions of people who never saw my post about the possibility that, should hansen turn out to be the real deal come TC time, that they're in for treat and in danger of losing their hearts. gosh darn, who would have thought that little old me could singlehandedly disillusion a nation....
at 10-1
