tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8711985.post1296944452744215339..comments2024-03-05T05:38:22.024-05:00Comments on Left at the Gate: Out With a WhimperAlan Mannhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12570505944559196118noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8711985.post-5915713614225073432008-11-20T12:58:00.000-05:002008-11-20T12:58:00.000-05:00Thanks again for sharing your insight, DC. Nice h...Thanks again for sharing your insight, DC. Nice hit.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8711985.post-73227273890804445912008-11-20T04:58:00.000-05:002008-11-20T04:58:00.000-05:00Royal Taat wins by a nose @ $6.60Royal Taat wins by a nose @ $6.60Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8711985.post-78260569081728470402008-11-19T20:45:00.000-05:002008-11-19T20:45:00.000-05:00Whew, Alan.Still hatin' on Curlin.Time to let it g...Whew, Alan.Still hatin' on Curlin.Time to let it go.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8711985.post-30479016622196408562008-11-19T20:31:00.000-05:002008-11-19T20:31:00.000-05:009,000 people who braved a hurricane warning, flood...9,000 people who braved a hurricane warning, flooding everywhere, electricity out for a large majority of the area and a rumor he wasn't going to race. It took courage for those horses to run that day. The race card was fantastic, it is too bad Curlin kept all those fans away.<BR/><BR/>I find you to be sage. You see the future, the present, and the past all at the same time. Just like a crow. So much knowledge of horses and how great they were in the past. So much better than Curlin, I mean wwaaaaayyy better. Now you are marking words for the future of horse racing, it is remarkable how sage you are. The freeze dried in a tin can variety.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8711985.post-73412487579614174102008-11-19T13:30:00.000-05:002008-11-19T13:30:00.000-05:00A lot of the press received by Curlin has been sol...A lot of the press received by Curlin has been solely the result of Jackson PR department pushing it. <BR/><BR/>Unlike the late Lost In The Fog, for example, I don't see this widespread base of fans tickled to see him run or even organic articles done on him vs. spoon fed by the Jacksons. I recall reading an entire article in San Fran newspaper that talked about just LITF's blaze on his face! <BR/><BR/>The notoriety of the biggest bankroll - in my view - will be surpassed in a far shorter period then it took to overcome Cigar's. Dubai, BCC, KY Derby, and many $1M G1 races add up faster then ever. Let alone the bonus money that Smarty Jones hauled in. Least we forget Suffolk offered $5M to BB and Curlin to run there provided they were undefeated. Those big purse lures while unlikely in this economy now will return mark my words.<BR/><BR/>Maybe if Curlin hadn't been associated with Midnight Cry, if Jackson was more like Harry Aleo, or if the constant feeling of it all being about the money then I think people may have warmed more up to this story on their own. It's not Curlin's fault but he didn't run a 4-yr old season like Spectacular Bid and in fact far from it which didn’t help.<BR/><BR/>It would be hard to convince me that Curlin's career in the context of 21st Century racing has been any more accomplished then Invasor.<BR/><BR/>A telling sign with people making the effort: Curlin couldn't muster 9,000 folks to see him in the 2008 JCGC at Belmont yet Funny Cide in a little stakes race at Finger Lakes pulled in over 11,000 in his final run over a sloppy track.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8711985.post-1479473774736651062008-11-19T12:10:00.000-05:002008-11-19T12:10:00.000-05:00Out with a whimper, gone without notice. Well I th...Out with a whimper, gone without notice. Well I think (mind you) Curlin is getting a lot of attention in his sort of retirement , except for maybe one more race(?)... Race horses are so prone to vanishing, does a horse ever make news due to a retirement?<BR/><BR/>Many people know less about sports than do, it all depends on what your interests are. I like horse racing - you like horse racing, we know what's going on.<BR/><BR/>What gets me is that I am always being reminded of how Curlin is not a rock star. Well ok so he is not a rock star but he gets a lot of print over it.<BR/><BR/>The demise of horse racing cannot diminish what Curlin has accomplished, he is whimpering all the way to the bank.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com