Are you a GD savant?

I find it much more fascinating than discussing races three weeks before they are run.

aint no luck,
 

these were the days when you still liked US(eless) Blues....right ? of PT Barnum, Johnny Chan. or was that Jackie Chan ?

So is that strictly from memory or did you chronicle all of the shows you attended?

2 exceptions all year, and this is one of them. No?

No offense, but forgive me for not getting on board with the guy who thinks Curlin was better than Sunday Silence, Cigar, John Henry, and Alysheba among others.

I pity anyone who challenges Stevie to Dart Guns at Dawn. He's a quick draw!

You should have told Johnny Avello, probably be sitting on a 3000-1 ticket right now.

Gemologist was bet down around 40-1 or so at Wynn after his win in the Kentucky Jockey Cup late November for the DERBY, but they don't offer odds for specific triple crown horses. Most places will just offer a flat bet like the one below.

Will there be a triple crown winner?
YES +750
NO - 900

If you ask, they (Wynn) will give odds on pretty much anything assuming the bet amount is where they want it.

http://horses.bovada.lv/who-will-win....htm?r=1019121

I can't copy and paste the odds properly without some tedious editing but the link above has odds of winning the TC for each horse.

No bargains that I see.

What number did they open with in the summer of '85 at Merriwether Post Pavillion in Columbia, MD?

That's easy. They played two nights there:

Mississippi Half-Step, and Dancin' in the Streets.

Everyone knows that.

Casey Jones.

I was there. Equipment problems led to them finally playing it. One of two times I heard it in over 300 shows.

I just saw Justin Dew's post....I must have mixed it up with 1984. Oh well.

Just checking....

As per Baffert on Twitter
Bob Baffert ‏ @Midnightlute
Princess Arabella out of Ky Oaks. Live interview on HRTV today at 10am Pacific time for more details

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I think I just threw up in my mouth.

Reports are saying she is done and going to be retired and bred.
What the heck happened???
Steve and inside info?

Apparently Secret Circle is out as well:


Secret Circle will get a rest in coming weeks and will not run in #KyDerby, Bob Baffert tells @DRFAndersen. Will get precautionary tests.

Hope he is OK. Another great move by the GOAT. If this guys healthy how does he not win the Kings Bishop?

Horrible news. I need horses to beat the 2 likely overbet chalks.

I guess he wont be running in the Kings Bishop.

sesamoid injury, no surgery, out a few months.

not sure how pegram thinks tho that winning over a million means SC could have gotten 10f.

Who says he cant though? His pedigree says he ran route. He has 43 flat blazing speed, but he rates. Maybe this injury has been brewing, if so he looks even better now.

a lot of people, which is why pegram said what he did. and your last sentence? :zz:

How The Start Of The Race Looks
 

I know post position will have an impact on this but this is how I see the early order of the race;
Trinniberg
Hansen
Bodemeister
Gemologist
Take Charge Indy
Alpha
Mark Valeski
I'll Have Another
El Padrino
Union Rags
Creative Cause
Prospective
Dullahan
Daddy Nose Best
Daddy Long Legs
Rousing Sermon
Liaison
Sabercat
Went The Day Well
Done Talking

You posted this in the other thread.

Now, you are trying to figure out the early pace scenarios?

I agree with your original post, for the most part let's figure out which 20 will be in the gate and where. Plus we'll have some sort of idea on what the weather will be and how the track is playing the first few days of the meet.

Steve has mentioned this before somewhere...And I couldn't agree more.

I can't make heads or tails of The Oaks. Every logical contender appears to have the exact same front running style. I suppose Grace Hall has shown some ability to sit and wait and maybe Summer Applause. Any thoughts on how this race will develop?

Summer Applause will get the set-up that she didn't get last out, but nearly won anyway.

What do you mean?

Summer Applause got a HUGE setup last time and somehow still lost.

Meaning I like Summer Applause better for the Oaks than I do Believe You Can.

http://t.co/41IBzPVc

Undercard probables for both days.

Keep hearing that Union Rags is not bred for the distance.Does anyone know if any of Dixie Union's progeny has run or even attempted to go 1 1/4?

Grasshopper did in the '07 Travers. In addition to having the same sire, Union Rags & Grasshoppers' dams have a similar pedigree so he might be one to look at as a comparison if you're interested in that sort of thing.

Personally I don't see anything about Union Rags in his pedigree or (more importantly) in his past performances that says 10f will neccesarily be a problem for him. Doesn't mean it won't be, but I see no reason to think that the 1f stretch out will hurt (or help) this particular colt.

He's from the family of Colonial Affair, winner of the Belmont S. Also from family of Angliana, 2nd in the 10F Red Smith H., 11F Lawrence Realization, and 13F Gallant Fox. 2nd dam Terpsichorist set a ntr @ Med for 11F in 2:13, so distance does not appear to be a disqualifier.

UR certainly doesn't have that classic 10 f pedigree, but the last decade has been a parade of 8-9f pedigree looks that won on class.