CLASSIC CHAT: Quality Road Draws The Rail
 

Ut oh. Zenyatta post 8. LAL post 12.

Johnny V. is probably heart broken because he's drawn inside of Haynesfield and First Dude. I'm sure he had his heart set on letting those two go and stalking them while widest.

Looks good for Blame , Zenyatta and Lucky in my opinion

Would've looked better for them if Morning Line hadn't gone to the Dirt Mile. Less speed now.

Agree but still should be enough there to make it an interesting stretch drive

Big Drama who I didn't like anyway got the rail as well.

I don't think the posts matter at all in this race.

GZ won from the one hole

Should be a piece of cake for QR...............

Not at Churchill though. The 2004 BCC was at Lone Star. Luckin' At Lucky got a taste of what can happen coming out of the 1 hole in a 1 1/4 race at CD. There's just high potential for trouble.

Doug, I think the fact the other speed is drawn directly outside of him and he has the rail means it matters. He has question marks anyway, it just gives you extra pause.

I'm pretty sure I remember a Breeders Cup at Churchill where every horse that finished first had a "1" on the saddle cloth.

Toss the 1's at your own risk! Especially if the rail pavement is used!

The correct answer was Ghostzapper was a freakishly good horse, Lone Star, Churchill, Mars, whatever, and besides, SO was just making a snide remark about people comparing QR to GZ or something.

This is not a 20 horse field. There's nothing wrong with Quality Road's draw.

Not ideal. Nothing wrong with it. Not ideal.

It's an interesting post for Quality Road. I was at Santa Anita last year when he flipped out when the helicopter starting swooping over the gate. This year he loads first. Wonder if Shireefs has called in about 3 "copters" to hover over....

News flash:

QR ain't Ghostzapper.

No way - he needs QR in the race to help force the pace

lets all hope that QR even loads into the gate this time around

Hasn't the 1 hole won more Derbies than any other post? The 1 hole didn't hurt in the 2006 BC either.

And he finished last.

So Randall was right everyone... He drew the rail and finished last because of it, give Randy boy a reward or something...

Definitely the post. He's third if he draws the 5 hole.

I'm sorry your horse lost. You are awful but you knew that. I wasn't right about any aspect of the Classic. I would've expected QR to hit the board.

Randall it has nothing to do with my horse losing... You start a thread about his draw, before there was any bias... So you got lucky, then you bump it when he runs last, lol... THats all.. Nothing personal. Where did the #3 run?

While I don't think the rail was a good place to be, I think the bigger issue is that QR does not like running on the inside....I bumped mainly b/c when I looked at the chart I was surprised he finished last. Slow Poke o Prado got a 150k check. TO each his own.

He was DT's horse till he sucked s h i t today.

Who was DT horses? Haynesfield?

Quality Road

Not sure what you mean w/ He is DT's horse.. I loved him, not sure who else did.... Thanks for calling me DT, I think Steve will appreciate that.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDgHSVYiq4M

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