Mucho Macho Man

[bdw0617]

This horse, illistrates a large problem that horse racing has. Mucho Macho Man, as a 3 year old.. you could see he was okay but he wasn't ready yet. He wasn't at that level yet.

comes bakc his 4 year old year, really starts to put it together


today you see him today and he's a legit world class horse. he's approaching curlin, ghostzapper, saint liam, wise dan type status now.


I just think, how many more much macho mans would htere be if owners weren't tripping over themselves to retire every 3YO that ran a 95 beyer.

I cringe every time I see a half talented 3YO retire. Horses like, dunkirk and the like.

I really look forward to seeing what this horse can do this year.


Horse racing's primary job before drugs, before everything else, needs to be to find a way to keep horses like this on the race track


Everyone laments big red as the best thing to ever happen to horse racing but in reality, he was probably the worse thing that ever happened to horse racing long term wise; he started the horse is too much money to run trend we have now. That seemed to be the beginning of the end.


It creates a negative sum economy where trying to make a big red, is actually more profitable than having a big red.


The football equivalent to that would be a team realizing that it's better to be horrible on the field and keep getting high draft picks, so that you can potentially be good, versus actually putting a winning team on the field. Yet that's what we do. Year after year after year.


It's also why i tend to pay more attention to turf horses and fillies than I do 3YO colts. I don't give a damn about most 3YO colts these days I really don't. nothing to give a damn about 90% of them will be gone after the travers.

[valjoe]

Good points, I would put the drugs issue in front though

[Cree]

I don't consider today's performance world class because who the heck was he beating??? People are attacking Wise Dan and Game on Dude for their competition...but that was a terrible field.
ANYWAY, he looks like he will continue to be a presence on a dry, fast track this year.

[Whirlaway]

This horse, illistrates a large problem that horse racing has. Mucho Macho Man, as a 3 year old.. you could see he was okay but he wasn't ready yet. He wasn't at that level yet.

comes bakc his 4 year old year, really starts to put it together


today you see him today and he's a legit world class horse. he's approaching curlin, ghostzapper, saint liam, wise dan type status now.


I just think, how many more much macho mans would htere be if owners weren't tripping over themselves to retire every 3YO that ran a 95 beyer.

I cringe every time I see a half talented 3YO retire. Horses like, dunkirk and the like.

I really look forward to seeing what this horse can do this year.


Horse racing's primary job before drugs, before everything else, needs to be to find a way to keep horses like this on the race track


Everyone laments big red as the best thing to ever happen to horse racing but in reality, he was probably the worse thing that ever happened to horse racing long term wise; he started the horse is too much money to run trend we have now. That seemed to be the beginning of the end.


It creates a negative sum economy where trying to make a big red, is actually more profitable than having a big red.


The football equivalent to that would be a team realizing that it's better to be horrible on the field and keep getting high draft picks, so that you can potentially be good, versus actually putting a winning team on the field. Yet that's what we do. Year after year after year.


It's also why i tend to pay more attention to turf horses and fillies than I do 3YO colts. I don't give a damn about most 3YO colts these days I really don't. nothing to give a damn about 90% of them will be gone after the travers.

No doubt, the horse, jockey, trainer and all that he and his connections have done recently is good for the sport - we need more like him . . .

[Cree]

It's bizarre to rave so much about MMM and his connections...when Wise Dan is basically the same thing, only better. He is a homebred, he's now 7. He's won NINETEEN races!
He's a gelding, so no stud value, but my God, he's now a 2-time Horse of the Year, which is a feat in itself.