Worst ride of the last week...
 

I've seen a few pretty bad ones ..... but I got to give it to whoever was riding Affirmed. He puts him under a constant left handed whip out of the gate - and has him 7 wide on both turns at Pimlico .. an impossible trip - especially considering the way the pace collapsed and Zenyatta and Citation sucked up past the entire field.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42HO1...eature=related


I can't wait to bet Affirmed next time he runs back.

That's pretty much the most random collection of horses ever. Citation, AFfirmed, Ruffian, sure, but Big Brown? Smarty Jones? Oh, and the result was borderline retarded.

Yeah - but Affirmed was seriously 10 lengths the best in that race.

That plus the fact they had Rachael as a chestnut :p


Funny too how they just keep whipping and whipping...whack..whack..whack...

That was actually RA's future 2nd foal - Curlin Alexander - running in her spot in that race.

What happened to Secretariat? Was there a Jeff Mullins sighting in his detention barn that forced him to scratch?
Funny, even in a simulation Prado seemed to find trouble with Barbaro..........

That looks like Cauthen, but it's a little fuzzy. No way he hangs that wide with this group.. Kid would have stalked 3rd.

I thought it was obvious they couldn't use Secretariat in the race and still have Zenyatta win. That would have been going too far, so they didn't enter him.

Or Spectacular Bid, Seattle Slew, Ghostzapper, etc., etc., etc. I still find it creative that they were able to get her by Citation in a blanket finish though.

They knew where to find her. They were ducking.

Looks like Calvin must have been on Zenyatta.

COS!

I guess I was a bit naive thinking that there wasn't maybe a hidden agenda involved in what was supposed to be a fantasy race. It's funny I just realized also that out of the 10 entered in the race, about seven of them liked to be on or near the lead.

:tro:
I swear I thought the same thing.

Citation ran pretty well for a dead horse.

Based on the trip she got, I would have to say Rachel would have finished up much better than that. Looked an awful lot like her Preakness.
This is ridiculous and I am kind of ashamed of myself.

I loved the mountains along the Baltimore skyline.:rolleyes:

It was just a reminder to what Z had to cross to get there!

I've often gazed out from the grandstand at ol' Hilltop and marveled at how one can see the Appalachians from there.

That's more like it!

Good thing they didn't put Blame in there.

I'm just glad we finally have an answer to one of the greatest debates in the history of the sport:


Big Brown vs. Seabiscuit at 9.5f

I wouldve been killed if I were able to bet this race

It reminded me a little of that old game they had on the boardwalk in Daytona Beach and in the Orlando Jai Li Fronton in the early 90's.

They would have races between the greatest horses to ever run at Arlington Park .. and you'd bet tokens on the outcome.

You'd get like races between Secretariat, Coaltown, Sun Beau, Citation etc. etc.

Thoro-graph has BB 57 lengths faster at that distance compared to the Biscuit.