BC Post Mortems

1. A bit of bravery and contempt for front runners on championship day as most winners break slow from the gate. Or, more to it than that, possibly? Very fast track. Seems as if one could run from the front.

2. What's with the 7f for the filly/mare sprint? Without doubt there's a perfectly logical explanation.

2. Ladies Day I really liked. Instead of "Let's get this over with and get to the real stuff" I was able to sit back and appreciate the girls. The girls tell me there's a lower level of intensity in women's athletics. So, I think, it is with horses, but obviously just as much fun when it's done right.

3. Bringing me to "Goldikova". Wow! Every once in a while, and generally its a filly, you see a burst like that, or, something like that. The sire Anaaba is dead. Too bad!

5. What does a $1,700,000 yearling get you in the Juvenile Colts? Munnings ran like, well...hmm, just another horse.

6. And then Dearest Tricksi running her heart out with her $1000 sire Proud Romeo. I was rooting...

7. I'm avoiding getting carried away with Stardom Bound. Her field faded in front of her.

8. Red Rocks without steroids. Possibly Curlin without steroids?

9. Actually, I think Curlin just got beat, Asmussen bellyaching aside. What would you get had you trained Secretariat most of two years to run 13 second furlongs?

10. The Euros had their horses trained for long sustained sprints, unlike their buddies this side of the Atlantic. Did you notice Raven's Pass right behind Curlin all the way, except RP never ran out of gas, Detori said he conducted a hard work with Raven's Pass one week from the race. Unknown, what that means precisely, but, I'd like to know.

11. Two Eion Harty horses "not responding". What's with that? Is Colonel John looking so good on You Tube but an overhyped morning glory, or, is it again as in the Derby that Harty forgot to dot some of eyes and cross some tees. CJ simply was run much harder, farther and faster than he trained, just like Curlin.

9. Great, great cup days! Amid all the bad news, this is something to build on. Is a "level playing field" good for racing? I think so. There's quite a difference between the Euros being able to avoid dirt and Asmussen and Albarado claiming the pro-ride beat them. Instead of a "grass race" as Asmussen claimed, what I saw was somebody cleaning their clock.