Posted on 11/05/2022 9:27:40 AM PDT by basalt
hes going against the best in the World..mile 1/4. This is gonna be very telling...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfQLLTLtEZI
2 year old?
hes a 4 year old...
Thanks for posting.
I have been ignoring racing as much as other sports as they ALL went BLM on us.
So, only had heard vaguely of Flightline. Looked a bit into it.
He is very good but very lightly raced. Let us at least see how he does today.
Can he break GHOSTZAPPER’s record?
I do not see quite the versatility of GZ here yet so I’m not jumping on the bandwagon yet.
As for “best in the world” - remember most of the best in the world run on grass. The BCC has been a bit overrated just from that standpoint.
Thanks.
It’s unfortunate that Secretariat passed so early in her life, it’s also unfortunate that the veterinary who was doing the autopsy did not accurately weigh her heart which was estimated at 25 or 26 lbs, by the attending vet.
From what I’ve read that explains how she could pull out in the middle of a race and just start stroking to the finish whilst the other horses in contention were laboring mightily yet falling further behind.
I watched all three races.
I don’t think the horse racing purist would put Flightline on the same pedestal with Secretariat after only 5 wins (3 G1 & 2 allowance)
Flightline has won 3 G1 running away from the field, but there are horses in this same race with more G1 wins than Flightline.
10 or 20 length wins at the Met Mile or Delmar don’t really compare to a 31 length track record victory Secretariat put on the field at 1 1/2 mile Belmont Stakes, imo
Flightline didn’t hook up with any of the top horses in the triple crown series, and imo there is a world of difference between the field in the Classics vs other Grade 1 stakes.
Obviously he’s a fine horse, and we’ll see how good today when he’s hooked up against Epicenter, Life is Good & even Ky Derby winner, Rich Strike.
I take it that you're new to racing?
What race is up now?
I can’t figure it from TVG or the BC site, and DRF isn’t working for me.
Sec was a boy and he died of laminitis at age 19.
I still say Man O’ War was the bomb. Secretariat was amazing, but Man o’ War wore VERY a heavy shoes vs. Secretariat light weight and Man O War had a thirty pound additional weight added to him when raced.
I personally believe had they been raced with even weights and modern showing, Man o’ War would have blown by Secretariat.
it was 50 years between Man O War and Secretariat...and now its been 50 years since Secretariats astounding Triple Crown performance...which i think will never be equaled. Flight Line has been very impressive...i just love watching a great race horse do its thing. Just beautiful, amazing beasts...
lol...Big Red was a big ol colt....
Oh don’t get me going. I burned out on the MOW-Sec wars long ago.
Sec was great, but not the greatest. He even spit out the bit too much. The “abscess” is a bogus story that never appeared in Racing papers for at least 6 mos (his “mysterious loss in the Wood” all the way in August). The excuses are “lame”.
i dont think any horse would have beaten Secretariat in his Belmont Stakes race...almost other worldly..but, he did lose 5 times in his career...most place Man O Warn ahead based on that....
Actually 10 and definitely 20 lengths in a mile race means a great deal more than 30 with extra half mile.
Of course they must be tied with great times to truly mean anything.
But it is no insult to say someone is the greatest SINCE. That means in the time since that horse may be 2nd best.
Which I have yet to believe.
*WAR
Pluses are lightly raced and can be rated or go right to the front.
Negative, hard to gauge as never raced in traffic.
Greatest ever? Too few races to make that assessment. Horses that have run many more times, for instance in the triple crown races, have super stamina to be able to pull that off over 6 weeks of racing.
On the fractions seen others do 22s and 44s and 108+s, Dr Fager comes to mind.
Another “super horse” of long ago was Hoist the Flag. 7 for 7 but injured in training so never got to the triple albeit he was the favorite till injured. (I was at the track the day he was injured. The mood was very somber all day. Patched up but never ran again.)
Then there is five time horse of the year Kelso!
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