tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8711985.post2068767350823396397..comments2024-03-05T05:38:22.024-05:00Comments on Left at the Gate: Notes - May 16Alan Mannhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12570505944559196118noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8711985.post-67525233302423247192008-05-16T21:36:00.000-04:002008-05-16T21:36:00.000-04:00I liked the Fit For Fight, and particularly like t...I liked the Fit For Fight, and particularly like the way Evening Attire managed to overcome an even more atrocious gate start than usual to rally for second behind the much-the-best winner.<BR/><BR/>But we all knew it's going to take some growing pains to get horses ready for a mile and a half and beyond. There just aren't enough horses tailor-made for a marathon right now, and surely not enough people willing to get them ready to give it a try. If the return to a mile and a half Brooklyn (yay!) can attract a better field than yesterday's Fit To Fight, maybe even pulling someone---anyone---from the Pimlico Special willing to gamble on it, I think I'd be willing to forgive a slaughter in an overnight stakes like yesterday produced. It's just going to take more patience than has been exhibited to date. (If I even bring up "it's a marathon, not a sprint" as a cliché of choice on the subject, would I get beaten up for it?)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8711985.post-54550606915549165262008-05-16T14:54:00.000-04:002008-05-16T14:54:00.000-04:00Big Brown was juiced up yesterday and is ready to ...Big Brown was juiced up yesterday and is ready to go.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8711985.post-55746571671352318022008-05-16T14:26:00.000-04:002008-05-16T14:26:00.000-04:00We have a winner for dumbest article of the week:h...We have a winner for dumbest article of the week:<BR/><BR/>http://www.slate.com/id/2191503/<BR/><BR/>There's so much wrong with this I don't know where to begin.El Angelohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14145024095815950963noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8711985.post-33265063311578906362008-05-16T13:36:00.000-04:002008-05-16T13:36:00.000-04:00But you can't keep carding them ,pull 5 horse fiel...But you can't keep carding them ,pull 5 horse fields and offer decent purses that take in no handle for long. I don't have any answers, but to ask tracks to take it on the chin in the name of "industry well being" seems untenable. The only way I see it is for state racing czars to mandate slot money flow into purses based on things other than in state foaling/ breeding/ stallions... And then the product had better entertain, because when the slots faucet gets turned off (coming soon) it would devolve again..Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8711985.post-76050488914928708502008-05-16T13:13:00.000-04:002008-05-16T13:13:00.000-04:00Perhaps the last place horse shouldn't have been i...Perhaps the last place horse shouldn't have been in the race? It's not like distance horses are going to come out of the woodwork and make for quality races right away. If people keep carding them and offering decent purses, it'll happen. But not right away.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com