Pete Vella wrote: ↑3 years ago Did it really take us until 24 hours before festivus to get a thread going like this?
Sorry Pete!
Just checking to see if everyone is still "dialed in?"
Pete Vella wrote: ↑3 years ago Did it really take us until 24 hours before festivus to get a thread going like this?
Right?!Pete Vella wrote: ↑3 years ago Did it really take us until 24 hours before festivus to get a thread going like this?
I couldn't be less serious if I tried. It's a play on the last line of the OP.Nathan Klein wrote: ↑3 years agoI really hope you're not serious about that part because thats just kind of childish if it is serious.
We did have Dylan swearing at people the other day. But a proper thread like this is well overdue.Pete Vella wrote: ↑3 years ago Did it really take us until 24 hours before festivus to get a thread going like this?
Black Caviar took on the best of the best in both hemispheres and couldn't be beaten.Cleo Patra wrote: ↑3 years ago Horses like Winx, Black Caviar and Zenyatta won a heap of races and a butt tonne of money and retired sound, sane and celebrated.
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Brava! Very well said!Cleo Patra wrote: ↑3 years ago Michael, I’m not going to argue with you from a SIM viewpoint. A fake pony who takes on all the best and wins is a true champion.
However, I will argue all day long that you’re wrong about real life horses, especially mares. Horses like Winx, Black Caviar and Zenyatta won a heap of races and a butt tonne of money and retired sound, sane and celebrated. Unless you’ve actually trained a real life race mare you can’t understand how much of an achievement that is. Managing them physically and mentally to reach a targeted race is complex. They can bolt on the work rider, kick a wall and dislodge a shoe then stand on the nail, step on a stone, get cast, colic, bump a tendon playing in their box because they are half insane when fully primed to race, get kicked behind the gate by another runner etc etc ad infinitum. If I had a mare like them, I’d sit on my pile of money with my sound and happy mare and laugh at all the people calling me a coward.
My definition of a great sim trainer is one who maximises the earnings of their runners but also isn’t afraid to throw a good horse in the deep end.
I agree with this is a basic statement for both SIM and real life.Placing your horse where it has the best chance of winning!
Anytime, Nick. Glad I could help.Nick Gilmore wrote: ↑3 years ago And Michael...thank you for volunteering to be our target while we wait out the hours to Festivus.
I’m going to be a traitor to my gender and 100% agree. That could be because every horse I have in work right now in my real life stable is a mare. One of them is a redhead. HaaalpMichael Looker wrote: ↑3 years ago(My tongue is firmly in my cheek. And I absolutely respect how hard it is to keep mares sane; they're female after all.)