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From: "Janet Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2005 9:18 AM
Subject: Re: [racebase] Jocks
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> On 3/4/05 6:07 AM, "Peter Harrop" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>> When I saw Rutherford engaged, I figured the chances of the horse leading
>>> had increased to about 99 percent. If N G Harris is the uncrowned king of
>>> the back runners, then Rutherford is the queen of the front runners . . .
>>> this girl has a metronome in her brain.
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> The above bit jumped out and hit me between the eyes ... I've always
> considered lee Rutherford as medium to tell you the honest truth ... If you
> compare her to someone like Debbie Healey as a front running rider she
> wouldn't compare . The best front running rider I can ever recall seeing was
> Tony Williams. It would be interesting to see her stats and see if she is a
> top performing rider .... The best performance was that dude who went out
> to a 50 length lead in the Auckland Cup a few years ago and won it.Memory is
> slipping but I think the horse was trained by the Ryans of Matamata. I think
> the rider was more of a jumps rider but there you are ... Obviously
> Altzheimers is starting to kick in ...... But all that aside Gil what is a
> metronome? ...... Muz
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> On 3/4/05 6:07 AM, "Peter Harrop" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>> When I saw Rutherford engaged, I figured the chances of the horse leading
>>> had increased to about 99 percent. If N G Harris is the uncrowned king of
>>> the back runners, then Rutherford is the queen of the front runners . . .
>>> this girl has a metronome in her brain.
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> The above bit jumped out and hit me between the eyes ... I've always
> considered lee Rutherford as medium to tell you the honest truth ... If you
> compare her to someone like Debbie Healey as a front running rider she
> wouldn't compare . The best front running rider I can ever recall seeing was
> Tony Williams. It would be interesting to see her stats and see if she is a
> top performing rider .... The best performance was that dude who went out
> to a 50 length lead in the Auckland Cup a few years ago and won it.Memory is
> slipping but I think the horse was trained by the Ryans of Matamata. I think
> the rider was more of a jumps rider but there you are ... Obviously
> Altzheimers is starting to kick in ...... But all that aside Gil what is a
> metronome? ...... Muz
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#### Where most things in life are concerned, Muz, beauty is
in the eye of the beholder. Or, to drag out another old saw, one man's meat is
another man's poison. Look before you leap and be careful what you wish for are
practical and semi-practical pieces of advice but have no relevance here. And in
the words of the great American philosopher Kris Kristofferson (better
enunciated by Janis Joplin) freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose
— also irrelevant here, while that saw above is useless for cutting wood .
. . it's just a string of words
Obviously, I digress.
Where was I? Lee Rutherford, of course. There are lies, damn
lies and statistics (Benjamin Disraeli) or, put another way, first get the
facts, then you can distort 'em as much as you want (Mark Twain).
I don't care what the stats say on Lee Rutherford, I have a
mental picture of her, either in the Ritchies' lime green or the McKees' sky
blue, lobbing along in front, horse running kindly on a light rein then
kicking clear in the straight while the others are left flat-footed. Then, on
return to scale, the best smile in the business . . . something to gladden an
old man's heart. I wish I'd seen it yesterday.
In that Auckland Cup, Jock Caddigan had Kotare Chief run two
identical miles of, from memory, 1:38 . . . which sort of defines the term
"one-paced". David Peake tried similar tactics a couple of years later but came
unstuck (although he may have placed or at least earned a stake) and my guess is
that it's something that will come off once every 50 years. You and I won't see
it again, Muz.
Finally, the metronome. This is an instrument used by teachers
of piano. It is placed on the piano and ticks off the tempo the teacher
requires. It has become a metaphor for constancy and correctness of
timing.
And that's enough to be going on with.
Gil
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