mr hawaii wrote: I love Al Sahem but I cannot understand how he can win Champion Stayer - He has never run in open Graded Company against stayers so why does he deserve that award? Surely Hermosa Mundo or Ilitshe have more c;aims especially as the Gold Bowl was 3200m?
.....these days if you can get a yard beyond a mile then you have a stayer.....long gone are those big distance events that were once highly graded and now open to anything that can plod around the full circumference of a local race track..... :dry:
