Blackthroat,
You could be entirely right with this.
Heck, just getting a horse back on the track after a serious injury shows me some hope. About as easy as breaking a cribber of the chewing.
We'll just have to wait and see.
Wherever Blockhead is nowadays, he knows that I put Corinthian out on here before the bad stuff happened. I'd like to see both Corinthian and Blocky back. Just might liven things up for the unbelievers, uhh, fans.

I will let Pat Day's record speak for itself.

Pat Day was no more skilled than many other riders of his time...he was fortunate to be fed excellent mounts and have the right connections. He really wasnt that "great" a rider.

I was just looking back at the Past Performances for the FOY. It actually wasn't as bad as I thought. First Sam was coming off a bunch of nice races (103/98/107), Great Point and My Golden Song had just lost by a small margin to Barbaro. Rehoboth was coming off a nice allowance win. Flashy Bull was showing some promising form at the time. Jazil was in the race as well. Not a good field but nowhere near as bad as the Dwyer. I think the real question that has to be answered was what was going on at the end of the race. Were we seeing a tiring horse veering out in the stretch because he was out of gas or were we seeing a horse with a lot left that got to the lead too early and started goofing off displaying his Buckpasser genes? If it is the former then there is little reason to expect he will improve significantly off that race. If it was the latter then there is reason to believe he could be very good.

We'll see if I look delusional or not come May. I bet Sir Greeley hits the board in both and I think it is 20-1 that he wins one of them.

If you say so. But I guess 9 TC winners (and the only jock to win the Preakness 3 straight times). He also won the Canadian Triple Crown. And he holds the all time record for Breeders Cup wins with 12. I guess that is pretty much luck

Listen...I am not saying he was a horrible jock. He had a long career...so of course he was going to get the wins. But he wasn't one of the greats....McCarron..Eddie D....Pincay...Cordero...Stevens......they were the great ones from his time....I am probably forgetting a few....Day was nowhere near the jockey those guys were...

Thank god that night when he was all whacked out on heroin in a hotel room that god magically appeared from his tv and told him to straighten out his life....who knows what dumpster he would be residing in today calling home

Yeah--too bad Antley didnt have God pop out of his tv like Day. But Day did more on the track than Stevens, McCarron, Eddie D and Cordero did. I would say that Pincay is the top dog. Personal preference is all.

Day was better than McCarron?????? Cordero?????

You are clearly nuts and/or clueless.

This time I am gonna ignore you.

Adios......

Make your case as to why McCarron and Cordero are better. Change my mind. I am totally open to your logic. Go ahead and convince me.

Sorry.....I made a donation to charity already this month. I have no interest in helping you. Try me again next month.

So basically you can't? The numbers that Day has are much better than McCarron or Cordero.

BTW, I fully respect that you've seen lots of great horses and all, but the thing is, there are very few great horses in training right now and a lot of Grades Stakes races...so I'm just wondering, if none of these victories are going to Jazil, Corinthian and all of the other horses you claim to be doubtful of victory...who is winning them? The few horses of quality would be lucky to start 4-6 times this year.

Numbers huh?

So if you are a numbers guy where do guys like Rusell Baze and David Gall fall into your opinion? 3rd and 4th?

Numbers are not the end all to determine if a guy was "great".

Pat Day has the numbers.....but he couldnt wash either McCarron's or Cordero's jockstraps.



Clearly you arent worth wasting my time on.......adios

Strong Pretender of course. :rolleyes:

Euro,
I should write this in the other thread, you know which one.
It should be titled "fishing".
Goes like this...
Makes a cast.
Splashes down.
Lucky it didn't end up in the tree. Whewww!
Waits for the ripples to go away.
Waiting, waiting, waiting.
Gives it a twitch.
Nothing.
Gives it another.
Nope. That big one ain't comin' out.
Lockjaw is plenty frustrating.
Comeon ya big dumbass!
Nope...
So the jerk on one end of the line expecting a jerk on the other end reels in.
Cussin' while his rowboat slowly sinks.
Ain't no charity here!
And the DAY is made.
Glub, glub!
See ya Ahab!

Wayne,

I hope you know I was kidding...

Speaking of excellent Pat Day mounts, Easy Goer was one of my favorite horses of all time... Easy Goer and Sunday Silence got me into watching horseracing as a kid. Silver Charm started the actual addiction.

Jaimie,
Sometimes I do, sometimes I don't.
Now if we got down to really talkin' about how to select the freshest oysters or the firmest melons....all I can say is... I'M WITH YA, BABE!
Now, let's just get back to pickin' the KD winner...that would be more than enough for me, and hopefully you too!
Heck, let's have a TC winner this year. I'm ready, you?
W

You were dead on about Easy Grades... those three wins are more than Corinthian and Steppenwolfer will have in 07 combined...

Im still waiting for my Byanosejoe predictions to come true...

When did Easy grades win those races?

Wasn't he running for a 10K tag at Hawthorne last winter and maybe Churchill?

Hey, he was still winning though!