i believe the term is called 'common sense'?

how is it that 90%, at a minimum, on this very board, was able to foresee something like this happening? we're all psychic?

no way am i surprised at this turn of events. as for assmussens 'past' i'd say it's his present as well. he finished serving his six month suspension earlier this year, not as tho it's ancient history.
as for Tiz W, he should have been brought back slowly, i thought this from the moment he made his comeback vs the top 3 yo colt in the country. what happened to taking it easy, to bringing a horse back a step at a time? we all know that it's a dicey proposition bringing a horse back from an injury, and that too often the horse isn't quite the same. so why the mad rush to put him right back in top company? what happened to building slowly, regaining confidence along with a fitness level and mental edge?? i wouldn't hire assmussen to housebreak a dog or litterbox train a cat. absolutely disgraceful!

you have a magic eight-ball too?!

Hours and hours of watching the sales videos so she knew that Street Sense and Any Given Saturday were finished by their strides in the Tampa Bay Derby? :D

Thank goodness Dee-Tee didn't hire her as a consultant.

i'm a consultant...so....;)

Why the mad rush? Because he had about 2 races left blocked and stocked, thats why. This horse had a very serious injury, not a little tendon, he was really f'ed up. I understand the busienss involved, but at sometime human compassion and common sense are supposed to trump greed.

And f'ed up and all he still made EZ Warrior his b!-otch. Hope he's still with us and hasn't become an insurance casualty.

EZ Warrior may be one of the worst hype jobs of the 21st century. That and DW Lukas with Flying First Class, are the two worst this year

in the spirit of the game, i use a ouijia board.

in all fairness to ezw, he was ridden by the king of all moron jockies, david flores.

i cant say he was going to win, but i have no idea why he just sat still on him almost the entire way around the track. truly weird.

then again, i only saw the race on youbet. i'll have to watch it again on CR.

Just keep popping off and living behind your computer you jack ass..

oh brother. is that the best retort you have for me, threatening me with violence?

let's see here. you start off stuff with me by talking crap, you and i team up to embarrass you, my posts were all right on the money, and you come back with threats?

hey, maybe you and chevy chase can kick my ass!!

shoot man, now i won't be able to sleep for days, knowing you are out there gunning for me.

I wasn't too concerned with the level of competition Tiz Wonderful was brought back against. It's my feeling that either a horse is physically able to run or he isn't. If he isn't, don't run him, no matter who the competition is. If he is, run him, no matter who the competition is. Now, if they were looking for a win, it didn't make sense to run him against Street Sense or any other top 3yo. But if they thought he was physically back to the level he needed to be at to compete, I have no problem with the level of competition they returned in. The competition is not going to reinjure him if he's not ready. The conditions of the race will. My problem would be with the decision to run him at 9f first out of the box.

article on the race
http://racing.bloodhorse.com/viewstory.asp?id=40763

well, anyone who would invoke the almighty for a horse to win...let's just say i'd rather bother the old man for something like world peace. but that's just me!

Im sure pleanty of us have asked for the lords intervention to get a horse home at some point in time. Undoubtedly it fails everytime and to keep the faith I always think God must not want me gambling.

i actually had that goofy exacta 1 and a half times for my $10 (4,5/6) (5,6/4)(546bx)


cheap horse with heart "stuntman" was the logical alternative to the favorites. Flashstorm is so cheap but i planned for him to at least go out and make the big names quit... Flash didn't do $h!% but it still worked out.

Nothing like a good old fashioned redboard to stop a thread in its tracks.