[QUOTE=triplev123;3347]Triple says...So if it wasn't Back Class...what was it then? Divine Intervention?
I didn't see Benny Hinn on-course at Menangle...did you?


C'mon. You can do better than that surely?

Up until the end of March 2010, 11 months ago, that horse had a slate of 27 starts for 14 wins & 5 placings 6 wins were in 3yo company. His next two were in C company, the next three were an M0 an M0/M1 and an M1/M2 (all lesser class than last nights race) That leaves 3 wins. A C7+ beating Red Army who was an M1 back then and only a M2/3 now. Another was the Gawler Cup beating Shardons Rocket who was an M2 at that stage and is now only an M3. And of course lasts nights win an M1/M3. Last night was on par with the highest class race he has won - he has never been in and beat an M3 horse yet he beat Virage and Prince Benji who are M4+ horses. Mister Anthony was not a back class - he has raced in claimers and M2/M3 races for the past 3months. His highest class race, the Ararat Cup, he got well beaten by an M1 pacer - all bar 1 of the field were higher class than Mister Rhys - how can you say Mister Anthony was back class?????. over nearly 2 years of racing, under the care of G. Webster from the first time he set foot on the track in anger. After 2yrs or so of very consistent form and after winning a lot of races against some good quality horses including The Gawler Cup, his last win for G. Webster, he tossed in a couple of ordinary efforts & spent about 6 months or so away from the track.
He came back in late, late October 2010, had 4 starts in against pretty solid/in-form M2-M3-M4 Which was the company he was in last night M1/M3 with only one M1 in the field but with M4+ pacers Prince Benji and Viragecompany at Melton for no disgrace but no result.
This was followed by 3 starts from the Stand over distances ranging from 2240m to 2760m, each time beginning badly against solid opposition An M1 pacer won the race not an M4+ pacer so Mister Anthony wasnt dropping back in class, two of three times sitting up outside the leader virtually throughout and getting beaten 5m, 8m and 50m, the latter after sitting in the breeze and tiring in the Ararat Cup. The result has no barance on whether he is back class. Eg Horse A sits in the death in an C4/C5 and goes down a lip. Horse B sits leaders back in a C6/C7 and gets beat 20m. Next start they both race in a C4/C5. Horse B is back class but horse A isnt.
Following those race he was dropped into a Claimer against some old hard arses and finished a fair way back & then his next start was at Menangle...and he wins against a field that was not as strong as compared to most of those he had been racing from the Stand & the Mobile in his previous 10 starts. If that's really such a big surprise then troops, I'm Mother Theresa.Im not arguing if he should have won or not; im arguing that he wasnt back class; because well, he wasnt![/QUOTE]In that claimer The Gunstar won. Virage and Prince Benji were better performed in the Inter Heats - so if anything by that Mister Anthony was UP in class.