Furious Pete Wrote:
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> "I should approach the foreigners in this race by
> simply throwing them out as non of them, nada one
> has preformed well in this race."
>
> I wouldn't have touched Mubtaahij either to have
> anything to do with the payoffs in the Kentucky
> Derby but really that's my, albeit, small issue
> here: according to the figs he DID perform well,
> just about a length poorer than his race in Dubai.
>
>
> I know of course that what he beat over there
> wasn't an impressive bunch, all though I think you
> may be underrating them a bit, after all the purse
> was as big as the one in the Kentucky Derby and
> they aren't giving away that kind of money for
> free, are they?
>
> Anyway, for a moment take away the entire field in
> the Kentucky Derby and let Mubtaahij run it one
> more time doing exactly what he did on saturday,
> is it really likely that his race was as good as
> the one he did in Dubai? Maybe it is, I'm not
> sure. Just giving my humble opinion that I do find
> that just a tad doubtful, but if noone else has
> issues with it I'm guessing that the issue here is
> me, and that I'm okay with.
>
> EDIT (COMMENT): (it could of course be more likely
> that if you for a minute assume that I would be
> the one that is correct, it is actually the figure
> from Dubai that is the problem (too slow), and not
> the one from the Kentucky Derby).
I'm having a great deal of trouble comprehending why we are trying to use the oddball horse as a comparator for this race.
