BarbaroII
 

Morning line 5/1 will he go off at even mone or less? Ke 5th, Shoulda been BarbaroIII

Dam I looked over this entire card and did not notice this guy.

Bob and Chuck have one In that could "sting" them, Gondorf. All have strong looking pedigrees.

That's shocking considering how carefully you pour over the PP's...

I feel like the Anti-Christ running against Barbaro's brother

He prefers to sling opinions five minutes after the entries are out. He also didn't notice this one because the colt is by that crappy sire Dynaformer. As soon as the Jackson's wake up and send La Ville Rouge to Giant's Causeway, then PG will take notice.

If you win you get a free booking with Ms Jackson... And Chuck is just the guy to hook you up..lol

Thud!

Excellent point.

I thought so

He'd also take notice if they sent her to TGM.

I do seem to remember PG being the poster child for the TGM society.

Matz 3% first time out, and there's a legitimately good McPeek in there he has to beat. I'll pass.

whats the horses actual name?

Lentenor.

Finished 3rd.

Went off at 7 to 1. Pretty good effort for 3rd, considering the trip he had. Looks like he could use more distance.

For what it's worth, Matt Carrothers said he would not be a maiden much longer.

Not sure what was wrong with his trip. The winner had a much tougher go of it. Lentenor looks like he could be OK, but he was clearly third best today.

Being buried on the inside has been a curse all meet at KEE.

The winner was inside too, and he had to pinball with another horse to get clear.

Watch the replay- he's in the 3 path most of the way, then gets bumped exiting the turn, moves inside to the rail in the stretch, doesn't gain any ground, moves off the rail to the 3 path again and blasts away. Basically every horse on the rail has pretty much run like they were in quicksand.

He's a nice looking colt with a good first effort and I'm sure he learned a lot (feels like I'm repeating a Nicanor observation from his first race). My eyes went straight to him after the break. Didn't need to be told that was Lentenor and that's before I could see the silks. The latest yearling looks more like Dynaformer right? Less Barbaro/La Ville Rouge-esque. It looked to me like before Lentenor got clear in the stretch he had to check a bit behind that chestnut but I wasn't sure from the angle. Some 2yos wig out when they get into traffic on their first start don't they? He actually kept on truckin' and I'm sure Julien didn't wanna bust a gut to finish a closer 3rd. Like Nicanor, you feel like you can see him doing better next time for sure.

Just working off of that little bit we saw, he looks promising. I heard Matz had planned earlier starts that didn't pan out--I assume they didn't fill. Why was he 8-1 when Nicanor took lots of $$ ? Hasn't he always or almost always been favored? 'Fans of Barbaro' and all.

I think it's great that there's a colt some fans have followed literally from birth, through training, onto the track. The reality of the racing game. And it's good for racing, to have fan-friendly faces. Nicanor trumps Mullins.

Mullins? :zz: Where does he figure in this? Something about I Want Revenge?

i'd imagine she means that it's better to have a positive angle in the news (people seem intent on following barbaros little brothers) rather than just negatives such as a douche bag cheater posing as a trainer.

I think that's exactly it. Bloodhorse's semi-regular blog about Barbaro's brothers (and forthcoming sister) gets filled with lots of "horses are pretty" comments, but it's nice to see so many people enthusiastic, rather than focusing on Barbaro's tragedy.

I had a coworker just last week say how she hates horse racing after what happened to Barbaro. And I tried explaining, horses break down in their stalls, laminitis takes healthy horses, too, and his death focused a lot of attention and research money on it, blah blah blah, but forget it; in her head it's mean to make horsies run in circles and that's it. (Of course, to her the Central Park carriages are also barbaric, but when I asked her where she thinks what would happen to all these former pacers and Amish farm horses if their job was taken away she blithely said, "oh, someone could put them out in a field somewhere" and I just about slammed my head into a street lamp in despair.)

So yay for Lentenor's first race. Here's hoping he keeps progressing.