Posted something here a while back:
http://www.harnessracingforum.com/sh...ntle-Cup/page3
Look in that attachment (its not very clear sorry but hard to get formatting right on here).
At top. Ignore the later comments as was having some fun with Brendan.
The horse would appear to be driven differently when Smoken Up is in the race. He runs the gate when he can so he can be up closer.
That's not his caper
imo.
His caper is what he did on Sunday. I made comment to someone on here before the race that I thought he would win with the proviso "Don't run the gate Gary". When he didn't, race was over at winning post first time
imo.
They 2 great horses but very hard to compare them to each other given their different racing styles.
Could Smoken Up do what ITMQ did Sunday? No way imo. Not his caper.
Could ITMQ sit outside Blacks A Fake and win a Miracle Mile? No way imo. Not his caper. Could he do what Smoken Up did in the Len Smith? No way imo.
The discussion will go on forever! We should just count ourselves lucky we have them both going around and promoting the discussion.