The horse Z Humor ran pretty well though. That was a tough pace and he was right with the pace the whole time. Turf War and Borel looked great and the local horse made a big run. A little hard to see and predict off of this race. I think it was good for the 2yo/3yo crop to see 2 of the better pedigrees do well here.

How does the purse distribution work here? (each split win and place?)
Graded earning$

The first two finishers split the win and place monies ( probably 80% of the purse ).

My 1st opinion was a double d.q.,but HRTV did not do a good job showing the head-on.Looked like Gomez forced the middle horse out to the 9 a little ,too.For sure Garrett fouled.Don't know why they would leave him up.That was plenty to bother a horse who only got beat a half head,and actually the outside horse probably did enough to get taken down(since middle horse only lost by half head.)Would like to see what the 9 did again though.

Cajun state not big on taking horses down.I remember at Canterbury,that Martin guy(maybe was on Intelligent Male) fouled a Sadler horse with T Baze up(in the claiming crown big race.) For some reason,Canterbury stewards let it go,and Martin said Tyler needs to come down to Louisiana for some schooling.

How many days out of their season do they get to look a Go Go's rides in Vinton, La?
come on.

Yep. $400,000 to each runner, putting them both in the Derby next year.

Thankfully last year the top two (Pirates Deputy and Birdbirdistheword) didn't press on for the Derby even though they could have got in. Hopefully if these two aren't in form in May they will make the same decision. It is just a matter of time though before some horse runs top two in this race, can't even hit the board in any races as a 3yo and still presses on to the Derby while an impressive allowance winner that goes on to run a tough luck second in the Wood is left out.

Lawyer Ron in 2006