Mine...

2000 - Fusaichi Pegasus
2001 - Point Given
2002 - Perfect Drift
2003 - Peace Rules
2004 - Smarty Jones
2005 - Afleet Alex
2006 - Barbaro
2007 - Curlin
2008 - Denis Of Cork
2009 - Dunkirk
2010 - Stately Victor

The redboard thread.

Great thread, but I can't believe that there's absolutely no mention of Saarland. Am I the only idiot that had him that day? :o

My winners

Year Winner


2007 Street Sense
2006 Barbaro
2004 Smarty Jones
2003 Funny Cide
2001 Monarchos
2000 Fusaichi Pegasus
1997 Silver Charm
1995 Thunder Gulch
1991 Strike the Gold
1989 Sunday Silence
1987 Alysheba


Had PON last year but the bird stole it from me. My favorite winer is still Strike the Gold.

This thread reminds me that my old man booked a $20 Win Bet on Sunday Silence for me in 1989 and then stiffed me. Time to get get out the calculator and figure some compounded interest.

I recall he was trying to teach me a lesson that I should have been saving my work money for college instead of playing horses.....

Close but No Cigar

1. 1. 1981 Cure The Blues
   2. 1982 Laser Light
   3. 1983 Current Hope
   4. 1985 Proud Truth
   5. 1988 Forty Niner
   6. 1989 Easy Goer
   7. 1990 Summer Squall
   8. 1991 Best Pal
   9. 1992 Pine Bluff
   10. 1996 Honour & Glory
   11. 1997 Captain Bodgit
   12. 1998 Victory Gallop
   13. 1999 Cat Thief
   14. 2000 More Than Ready
   15. 2001 Point Given
   16. 2002 Came Home
   17. 2003 Bandini
   18. 2007 Scat Daddy

I had a pretty good run of horses hitting the board at one point, didn't I? Lost a lot of concentration AK (after kids). But Skip Away was the best horse in the race; he just hated Churchill.

Bandini was close ? Funny Cide ? tore him a new one !;)

2005 - Afleet Alex (3rd)*
2006 - Barbaro (1st)
2007 - Street Sense (1st)
2008 - Big Brown (1st)
2009 - Chocolate Candy (5th)

Not too shabby for my first five years.

*Speaking of Afleet Alex, anybody here have a compelling reason to make me feel good about Dublin winning the Derby? I'm on the fence right now, but have a hunch that he might win (even though his credentials say no).

Oh yeah. How this for a redboard?

2002: Medaglia d'Oro
2003: Empire Maker
2004: Borrego(lost before the race when Goldberg picked him)
2005: Sun King
2006: Lawyer Ron(another Goldberg pick I believe...shouldn't have even watched)
2007: Street Sense
2008: Denis of Cork
2009: Friesan Fire

The youngsters here forget how much easier it was to identify the good horses going into the Derby in the 1970s and 80s. They ran 4,5,6 races before the Derby - 3 at a minimum - and tended to have proper 2yo campaigns before that. After 10 or more starts, the wheat tended to be pretty obvious, and the chaff could be dismissed from consideration.

I have still not gotten over Bold Arrangement

Bandini ran the Derby as a yearling? No wonder he got beat! :)

Bandini ran in 2005. I tossed him that year ... couldn't stand the FuPig headcase that he was. LOL