Monarch's Journey

[Kenren]

Monarch's Journey: I'm really frustrated with him this week. I thought he was building beautifully to the Red Mile, winning two HOTY races leading into it, so it was kind of a punch in the gut when he was last in the Dr. Fager. The reason stated was back class, but this year he had the second-most HOTY races in the field... So is it something that's going to feed off of last year? Are the horses that ran in the other series this year unsuccessfully going to beat him out simply because they were able to run those distances? I'm at a total loss because I literally don't know how else I can prepare him. But he hasn't run against this field of horses much I guess, so I don't want to keep running him in the series if he's not considered competitive. I've had enough of beating dead horses this year between Aphrodite's Chant and Santana's Legend (who won a leg of the TTT and then finished out of the money in her next three races).

[S u N f r O s t ~]

I consider him competitive Kenny. It's officially just luck-of-the-draw with these races, I think. I thought the field was fairly even and he was excellently prepped. I'm just going to say luck was out of favor with you this race. I can't explain sometimes why our great ponies race badly or perform under par, but I guess it's so that we don't get our hopes up XD I mean that facetiously of course.

[Kenren]

I guess I was just most frustrated by the rationale, because I do feel he was equally as classy as the rest of the field this season... he just didn't have that as a juvenile, and I don't understand why that should count against him when he's having a stellar season this year. I dunno. I just feel like this is one of the reasons why it's so hard for me to campaign three-year-olds because if they're not successful as juveniles, it counts against them when they get to the biggest races.

I think I'm just frustrated anyway xD I don't complain about results most of the time, but I'd rather hear that they were even and that it was just a decision that had to be made than that my horse didn't make the grade because he wasn't good enough last year.

[S u N f r O s t ~]

I would take that up with the judge then. And I wouldn't say that juvenile success is required in order to be good...at least, it's not a guarantor of anything. *pokes some ponies*

I feel your frustration. Honest. We just need to hang in there!