Talk:La Fleche (horse)

George Barrett and the Derby
I know the comments on La Fleche's Derby defeat are borderline WP:OR. I'm trying to think of a better way of expressing the issues. The thing that really struck me was that no-one in the immediate aftermath of the race seemed to think that Barrett had done anything wrong. The legend- that he was drunk, mentally unbalanced or just plain incompetent has become entrenched and is repeated without question in a lot of non-contemporary sources. If he had ridden such a rotten race, why did he retain the ride for the Oaks, in which, by all accounts, he rode an absolute cracker? The form suggests that La Fleche was about 8 to 10 pounds below her best form in both her races at Epsom in June 92. Tigerboy1966 (talk) 01:28, 5 December 2011 (UTC)