Lost in the (bleeping) Fog

[austique]

This horse is officially a freak, and you have to love Aleo! When asked what made the horse so special, he looked at Edwards like she was retarded and said "He can run real fast that's what makes him special" Stories like this horse and his connections are what makes racing so great.

[ZiaLand]

I so agree, Austique. This is an incredible horse with a fantastic back story. Bet his connections never regretted running him in the TC series. Hope this boy is around for a long, long time to come.

As I said before....What a horse!

And you can even make that: What a (bleeping) horse!

Laurie

[Heidilady]

That had to be the funniest interview in some time for me. It was like a car wreck and I just HAD to watch. Poor Quint, bless his lil heart. I bet some ESPN head guys were watching, took a sip of coffee, and did simultaneous spit takes when Harry let that one go. When they finally got him to explain in a warm and fuzzy way why he wouldn't sell, I wanted to jump up and shout "finally! someone gets it! the real reason you outta be in this sport!" and I know if I were in his shoes, I wouldn't have sold either...you go Harry! The rare emotional payoff that is having the horse of your lifetime is the biggest high you can get and why give it up? It's not like he's gonna have another 30 years to find another one. You can get away with selling a top nice horse but I don't see how people can sleep at night if they sold the BIG one. That's the one where you go "I just don't care, this is the reason I'm here to begin with."

I really took offense at the 4th place slot Randy gave LITF on his list of top 3yo. If he doesn't beat Afleet Alex on the list he deserves 2nd at worst. No way what Giacomo and Flower Alley have done, impressive as they were by getting the Derby and Travers, tops the magic this horse seems to have. He and AA are the only ones to get things to the next level and Lost in the Fog makes you tingle, he just does. Winning the Sprint, unless Alex comes back to get the Classic, clinches 3yo and for me HOY. Horses rarely move us quite like he does and that's worthy of something special at the end of the year.

[TBLADY]

"how do you compair this to the battle of the God Damn bulge?" OHHH It was great! how many times did the question need to be asked? :Why won't you see this horse?" DUUUH at 85 yrs old what in the hell would he do with 5 mil? The joy this horse is brining to this man is worth so much more then a dollar figure. Its about time someone sees this for the F%$king sport and not just the dollar signs involved!

Thank you Mr Aleo!

BTW What an animal!

[FOS]

hi guys

TBLADY reminded us what Mr Aleo said to the ABC-sports correspondent (in response to a question from him), after Lost In The Fog handily crushed the field in the King's Bishop "how do you compair this to the battle of the God Damn bulge?"

I thought that was the most no-nonsense (and in it's own perverse way) hilarious response imaginable...something we might have expected in a movie or possibly on Saturday Night Live...or maybe Comedy Central...or maybe from comedian George Carlin...or from Monty Python...or whatever.

Hard to disagree with what heidilady wrote re: that moment...especially the last line (in bold) "That had to be the funniest interview in some time for me. It was like a car wreck and I just HAD to watch. Poor Quint, bless his lil heart. I bet some ESPN head guys were watching, took a sip of coffee, and did simultaneous spit takes when Harry let that one go."

Needless to say...I guess there was no 7-second delay.

Repectfully

[monicabee]

ESPN embarrassed themselves so many different ways that the heads were probably hiding beneath their desks by that point in the broadcast.

From the Jerry Bailey "skit" that they then mocked, to saying solemnly about one of the horses, I don't recall whom, that he was "a direct descendant of the Darley Arabian" as though that made him unique, to the Aleo "interview" it was just one hilarious moment after another.

I have to say, I hope I make it to 85, have a great horse and when idiots impersonate reporters and clutter up the box before the race, just nail them like that. That was great television!

[StrawberryFelidos]

Heidilady, I have to agree. Randy can be an informed telecaster, but frankly, when he says stuff like this, I think he's high. Giacomo might've won the KY Derby by he has no more place on the "top 3yo" list than Lil. E. Tee did back in ye olden days, or Colonial Colony deserved to be a top-ranked dirt horse based on his Stephen Foster. To me, many top-quality wins are more impressive than winning one "big race."

Winning the Sprint, unless Alex comes back to get the Classic, clinches 3yo and for me HOY.

(Shhh, here's a secret: if it were up to me, I'd give him those titles whether he wins the BC or not! ) Say, wouldn't it be just special if he lost 3yo title to Alex but won Horse of the Year? (because we all know, "3yos can't win 3yo champ unless they compete in the Classics!" But can non-3yo champs win HOTY? Yep! ) In all likelihood the bias will remain and the one thing Fog will get is a Champion Sprinter trophy, while Alex will get everything else (and Giacomo will get votes for 3yo champion,you can bet my word! And I won't have to think very hard to guess who cast that vote, Randy)

[austique]

Awww! Come on guys don't knock Giacomo. This horse was right there every time aside from that Belmont debacle where Mike Smith was obviously high. I agree he's not in the 3yo championship picture given that he probably won't start until the Malibu, but he's a nice honest horse. Frankly and this is going to sound harsh. If Flower Alley, runs the table winning the JC Gold Cup and the BC Classic against older horses, I think he deserves a look and it pains me to say that cause I'm not a Pletcher fan. If Lost in the Fog runs the table winning the BC Sprint against older horses, he should win. Afleet Alex I think really has to come back this year to seal the deal. Especially with the short attention span of the horse racing press and the fact that most of the horses he ran against earlier in the year are out with injuries or have failed to hold their form. The handicap division is ripe for the picking this year and that could serve some lucky 3yo very well.

[llbean]

From the Jerry Bailey "skit" that they then mocked, to saying solemnly about one of the horses, I don't recall whom, that he was "a direct descendant of the Darley Arabian" as though that made him unique, to the Aleo "interview" it was just one hilarious moment after another.

Kenny Mayne was clearly kidding with the "direct descendant of the Darly Arabian" comment.

Disturbingly, the incomprehensively stupid question about how owning an excellent racehorse compares to fighting and quite possibly almost getting killed in an incredibly Bloody Military Engagement was not supposed to be funny (and if it was it would've been in very bad taste anyway).

Whatever his perceived faults as a comedian, please don't conflate Kenny Mayne (who actually has knowledge of racing) with a pure piece of payroll depleting dead-weight like that Quint person.

And now that I think of it; before the Derby creepily robotic "reporters" were always bothering Steinbrenner with the rather silly question: "How would winning the Kentucky Derby compare with winning the World Series?"

And so many different "reporters" asking him the same question makes it all too clear they were asking it because they couldn't think of any real questions to ask using their brains and thus had to construct a question using the tiny knowledge they had of George Steinbrenner (He own Racehorse in Derby; He Win World Series") and then contructing a "Question" by imputting that highly limited knowledge into a Cliche Contructing Computer Program (which not incidently requires far less Hardrive space than a game of Frogger).

Quint merely "took it to the next level", by somehow reaching the far more sad than funny point of unintentional self-satire.

-llbean

[StrawberryFelidos]

Awww! Come on guys don't knock Giacomo.
This horse was right there every time

Okay, okay- I'm sorry, Giacomo
It wasn't ment to knock you as much as to enforce that the telecaster is high

aside from that Belmont debacle where Mike Smith was obviously high

Everybody's high! Pass it around! Then again, given the flipped palate situation, I can't bring myself to put it all on Smith. It was a goofy lookin ride, though- coincidentally, it looked just like the rides given to the last two Kentucky Derby winners (and subsequent Belmont losers)!

If Flower Alley, runs the table winning the JC Gold Cup and the BC Classic against older horses, I think he deserves a look

If he did that he would deserve a look. However, even though he's good I'm not sure if he's *that* good. He's a fighter, but when it comes to his elders (and the really tough ones at that: Saint Liam, Rock Hard, etc.) I don't know if his talent will be as big as his heart. Somehow I don't get the impression of uber-power from him, just determination with occasional spark.
Admittedly, even if he did do everything perfect I'd still be rooting for Fog Man Or Alex. Flower's my 3rd choice.

And, hey, what about English Channel? He's a damn fine 3yo, and on turf! Such a complicated picture this year...

[reenci]

well i was there and i saw it up close and personal......LOST IN THE FOG is an incredible horse....he took what challenge the rest could offer and he spit them out...plain and simple...the second quarter in that race was what was so stunning and the way he did it....no effort at all.....i think i can say with pretty much confidence that on travers day i saw two breeders cup winners....LOST IN THE FOG and that turf horse leroid..whatever......still cant remember his name....but he is a cup winner in the mile on the turf for sure if he stays healhty. but back to LITF....in person he looks tremendous
ps: lost in the fog was more impressive than flower alley, not to take anything away from his performance, but thats how i saw it.

[Tairaterces]

Russell Baze said that when Foggy made the move at the quarter pole that was all his own doing, Russell never asked him. . . . . . . .shades of his Great Grandpa here . . . . . . .

After watching my tape of all of the Fog's races, in the 5 of them that were at the angle to see him in the gate. He enters the gate kind of looks around a bit and when the gateman moves to the side, Foggy sets himself and stares straight out and looks like a statue waiting for the gate to open.
And the rest is history . . . . . . . .

What a lovely freaking horse . . . . . . . . . . . . . .and his connections aren't damn bad either . . . . . . .

Tairaterces