How do we know? The good to soft mean, of course, is one horse wins, another loses (or “pats”, as a win in some other setting usually means that the other horse “bounced”). We should keep the meaning of “good to soft” in mind when we think about a horse and to help us understand (and perhaps even help a horse to appreciate) what good to soft means in a racing context, a term that is widely misunderstood. (Thanks to Steve Henslow for pointing me to this article.)
I will be referring mainly to the “good to soft” term, which is in general a positive term for how a horse is going to win at race track, and the phrase “good to soft” is a negative term that conveys an unpleasant feeling for horses who are going to lose at race track.
I’ll use the example for a few other reasons as well:
One of the more common reasons for saying “good to soft” is to tell us to “pats” on the nose of a horse who gets hot in the heat. That often results in an incorrect interpretation of what “good to soft” means, as I will hopefully illustrate below. The term comes from the British sport of cricket: “pitch and york” (or “pitch as a yorks”). While I’m certainly not talking about cricket here, the expression could equally be applied to racetrack racers. I’d much rather not use “paint it black” to describe a losing condition that’s too late to be changed, as it conveys that one should let go of hope. (A similar idea was used a few years ago when I talked about the feeling of “good to soft”)
Another common use of the term is an indication that a horse appears confident and not fearful in the wind.
Perhaps the most common use of “good to soft” occurs in a conversation about a horse’s fitness or the health of another horse. The phrase is often used to describe how a horse feels when it is going fast. One of the most recent references I’ve come across comes in an American television show, and it is the use of this phrase with respect to a horse’s performance that makes the reference memorable. The “good to soft” comment came about in an interview on the popular television show “Celebrity Fit Club”. During a segment on the show, an announcer asked the contestants, “Will they be good to hard, with the good
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