zaftig would blow his doors off... mint lane

I was on the phone with my boss aka "my wife", out of all the times she has to call and give me things to do it had to be when they were loading into the gate of race 3.

Unbridled's Heart had a more difficult trip than he did last month but he still could improve. The 3 year olds division is still suspect. The mistake I made was not taking a chance against him. I had the right idea last night but chickened out today.

Betting against Jimmy Jerkens at this current Belmont meet is hazardous to your bankroll.

Who WOULDN'T Zaftig blow the doors off of? :D

Considering that those rats in the 6th ran a very ratlike time of 1:14.26, it doesn't appear that the track has sped up dramatically. There isn't a huge sample size, but Mint Lane's figure seems legit, IMO.

It's hard to disagree. It's in the mid 100s ( 102 to 106 ).

Jimmy Jerkens's horses are certainly running very well.

What would that give Unbridled's Heart then? Low 90's? Maybe he just got smacked by a horse that's better than people thought and will prove to be very good as well.

Bottom line is we're looking at the worst crop of 3 year old colts in the history of the sport.

I'm confused by Mint Lane. I guess it's about 1.8 points a length so Unbridled's Heart ran 11 or 12 points slower.

It will be interesting to see how Mint Lane runs if he ever actually gets challenged for the early lead but he has to be better than I thought he was.

That's not true...but whatever. Keep plugging away.

Whatever.

It almost looked like they rated UH back out of the gate. Like they wanted to get him to settle and drive on, except that Mint Lane didn't do any slowing down.
Haven't looked at the replays again to determine if UH broke poorly or was rated back.

He broke poorly.

Yeah the break cost him the race.













lol

Totally.

casino drive is a super horse... i have been saying that for days man

Disappointing effort by U's Heart. . . I was at Belmont today but decided to leave before his race . . . glad I didn't miss anything.

Strategic Mission GETS BENT OVER (like a bitch).................


Place Laughing my ass off SMILEY here.

The fig doesn't matter that much. It was only his second career race and he lost a race where he did not get a good trip and the winner who is a good horse had a dream trip. Mint Lane created his own trip but he's much more experienced than Unbridled's Heart. I think Unbridled's Heart will improve off this race. The Dwyer looks like a good race to make is his start unless they decide to run in a non winners of 1. If he improves and runs a good race, he can run in the Jim Dandy and the Travers.

[quote=pick4]The fig doesn't matter that much. It was only his second career race and he lost a race where he did not get a good trip and the winner who is a good horse had a dream trip. Mint Lane created his own trip but he's much more experienced than Unbridled's Heart. I think Unbridled's Heart will improve off this race. The Dwyer looks like a good race to make is his start unless they decide to run in a non winners of 1. If he improves and runs a good race, he can run in the Jim Dandy and the Travers.[/QUOTE

that would be ambitious, especially off of todays effort

Good call on Admirality JSC.

He crushed my longshot, and ran a pretty nice race.

Unbridled's Heart ran with front wraps today....maybe had something to do with his poor showing maybe it didn't....he could be just another fragile Unbridled's Song...

thanks i did not cash on anything though... i hit one race all day today, and am down a few bucks

It was a tough card at Belmont IMO. I maybe noticed one value play through the first 7 races (Serpe/channing hill? turf race)

yea i hit nothing at belmont sad thing is i had the 18-1 victory gallop in a pick 3, cought the first 2, and needed akebono, then i go and make a win bet on him, double the pain

the only race i hit was churchill, i had 25 to win on brian hernandez at 11-1... in the second baby race.but did not even get me even for the day

[quote=jcs11204]UH is a lightly raced horse. The possibility of upside exists. But we'll find out soon if he is for real or not.

[quote=pick4]i get accused a lot on this website of falling in love with every horse that runs good.... i never touted UH once, i dont like him, never did like him, and dont think he will turn out to be anything close to a travers winner. decent horse maybe, but hes no ROMAN EMPEROR

So much for taking a day off, eh Action Jackson?

[quote=jcs11204]I wouldn't worry about other peoples opinions if I was you. The great thing about a messageboard such as this is you can exchange opinions with people who have pretty good knowledge of horse racing. Difference of opinions brings out the best. Sometimes people get offended by the written word and an argument ensues. I have strong opinions but I try to keep an open mind to other points of view. A lot of times I'm wrong and I learn a few things and sometimes I'm right and learn new ideas.

[quote=pick4]the roman emperor thing was a joke... well kind of a joke, i do like him

please dont speak to me, are friendship is over

I want to stab my eyes out.

you 2 must be in some sort of realtionship, lovers ? there are many threads where you guys gang up on ppl together..... is it true ?

[quote=jcs11204]this type of thinking may explain your lack of success at the windows. bet the best choice, not the one you like-and don't ignore those you don't like.

i always found that thought process kind of flawed anyway. how can you 'not like' a horse? you can think a horse is a bad bet, but it's nothing personal.

but then, you did say you look at cards searching for giant's causeways-so i think you've got a way to go before you should start throwing serious money at the tellers.

[quote=Danzig]when i say dont like, i dont mean a dislike, not in the way your making it out to be, i dont dislike any horse... i guess i mean not nearly as much as everyone else on here, especially the ppl who were making him a top 3, 3yr old off of a maiden win

[quote=jcs11204]He beat the Belmont winner in the Sir Barton, the same race that Sarava ran in. Only 2 Belmonts I attended with TC on the line were 02, and 08 and the winner of the Belmont last raced in the Sir Barton on Preakness day.

[quote=jcs11204]considering the state of affairs all year with the 3 yo's, it's hard to say who is good or not. unbridleds heart had a very good maiden win. so he didn't back it up, yet. doesn't mean he won't.
i saw that georgie boy is back in training, that's one to keep an eye out for. also saw the news that adriano is moving to bill mott, motion lost about a dozen horses or so. still only halfway thru the year, things are only about to get more interesting.

[quote=Danzig]Malibu would be good race for Georgie Boy to point to. He's a Calbred and could prep in the stakes day for Cal bred at Oak Tree.