ENABLE

Interesting listening to them talk about how great it was to still have her racing at 5. I guess that's what it's like with stallions here, but with a mare you'd think they would race on a little longer. Look how good Makybe and Winx were at 7. Is it something to do with that belief that was around a long time ago that racing longer impacts their ability to produce good offspring? 

Irrelevant answer.

Enable has raced just 15 times over four seasons.  Often against 4-7 opponents.

Rarely did Winx have to go anywhere near to giving her all.

Second Chance wrote: #! irrelevant again.  Neither of them left anything out on the trackso the quality of opposition is a moot point.  Unless of course you maintain that Enable will have spent more or similar energy in 15 starts than did Winx in 40-odd.  But more importantly you've singularly avoided the essential question asked.

Its ok, you feel let down. I get it.  The Enable bubble has burst, perhaps she was underdone from racing the girls in a soft lead up campaign. You know you would have been first on here gloating had she won. but she didn't.  It was a very weak edition of the Arc, no 3yr old fillies with there allowance, only 11 opponent's, horses like poets word, cracksman, crystal ocean, sea of class all missing. No genuine opposition at all. And still she couldn't get the job done.  Speaking of beating up on the same opponents over and over, how many times now has she faced Magical and Waldgeist ??  I guess Waldgeist must get a ratings boost to 145p on that run, beating up on such outstanding horses. 

Second Chance wrote: If two horses try their guts out, irrespective of the opposition, they're equally f8cked at the end of the race.

Only if you over inflate the ratings and ability of the field,  there was one very good horse in that race that failed to produce on the day, the rest are fairly ordinary. The winner takes his record to 9 wins from 21 starts and has a rating = Hartnell

No over inflation necessary. In terms of the race itself, it was a pretty strong edition.

Had Hartnell won that exact same race you would be saying how lucky he was to run into such a weak field.  Bottom line she let her fans down badly and couldn't get the job done

Its not trolling at all, simply pointing out a few facts that most Euro centric fans cant accept.  1) Enable raced the same fields over and over, just like winx did 2) This field was very ordinary, just as some of the fields winx faced were, 3) Enable had her pants pulled down by a horse rated the equal of Harntell, hmmm ok so that would never happen with winx lol

So you just happened to post for the first time in almost a year in this thread specifically? Ok mate. 

djebel wrote: Winx basically had no competition.

Yep. Winx is a champ but she raced in a weak era of middle distance racing. No depth. I'm glad you identify this. It's time biased Aussie racing supporters take their blinkers off and realised this too

Stays in training for next year.