Chris Barsby...bizarre statement

[Danno]

Poor old Chris has tripped over his bottom lip here

http://www.harness.org.au/news-artic...?news_id=19526

"bizzare" that someone might actually bypass one of the classics in order to protect the long term future of a potential supestar????

Talk about dickheads, Chris you get my "tool of the week" vote, hands down mate!!

[Mitch]

Hey Dan,

I can understand where Chris is coming from. Its natural to think that given his stallion potential the Vic Derby would be a lock for him and given the trend of more and more stallions, in particular from the USA, not racing past 4 I certainly expected him to contest both the Vic & NSW derby. However Kevin don't need the cash so if they do look after him and he continually improves by the time he is 5 he will be literally unbeatable. I reckon as a 2yo he would have beaten most of the 3yos.

This horse is a freak. Between him & Restrepo we have 2 absolute superstars to take over from Smoken Up & Quinny.

[Danno]

G'day Mitch,
I agree with evrything you stated except "you can understand where Chris is coming from", you obviously understand where Kevin Seymour and Grant Dixon are coming from, where does a commentator have the right to call their decision "bizarre"???

[Mitch]

I think as a journalist he has the right to share his interpretation of the situation. I personally don't find the comment offensive or disrespectful.

Slight change of topic but what did you make of Guaranteed's run on Saturday night?

[Big Max]

He's a gelding

[Mitch]

And so he is... For some reason I had it in my head that he still had his rattlers in!

[Danno]

Lovely ,lovely horse that one, yeah he got softened up first up, then driven a little overconfidently through the second last quarter, but the concerning thing I think I observed was a bit of proppyness in his gait, I hope I'm "seeing" things that aren't there, because i reckon he is one very nice young horse, he has grown quite a bit from his last appearance and horses that do that usually take the next step to cracker 3 YO.

[Mitch]

Lovely ,lovely horse that one, yeah he got softened up first up, then driven a little overconfidently through the second last quarter, but the concerning thing I think I observed was a bit of proppyness in his gait, I hope I'm "seeing" things that aren't there, because i reckon he is one very nice young horse, he has grown quite a bit from his last appearance and horses that do that usually take the next step to cracker 3 YO.

I think he has brilliant speed but not sure he has the stamina required to dominate derbies. I have Flaming Flutter ahead of him.

Then again never underestimate a Tonkin horse, his training methods get them super fit!

[Big Max]

Pretty exciting first up win,57.1 for 2240 that's impressive in my book!

[Mitch]

Pretty exciting first up win,57.1 for 2240 that's impressive in my book!

Its very impressive in mine too.