Insanity at Belmont
 

burn your racing forms, sheets, thoroughgraphs.

Yeah, how could anyone have had these insane horses?

Race 1 - $6.60 winner
Race 2 - $7.00 winner
Race 3 - $5.50 winner
Race 4 - $8.40 winner
Race 5 - $10.80 winner
Race 7 - $4.60 winner (Trappe Shot)
Race 8 - $10.80 winner

That was a pretty good claim for 35k.

You are missing 2. Looks like the P6 pays out to 1-4-6-10 and not Shack who will probably wire this bunch based upon what we have seen today

It would have to pay out to Animal Kingdom as well, or no?

Yeah....I'm aware that a couple prices did come in.
Not sure that qualifies as "insanity."

How about Now...

LOL....well okay....that race was a little insane.

i had a $90 late pick 4 and didnt have 1 winner on the ticket

I went B,C,C,X Not even close

Does this count as redboarding? Or maybe deadboarding?

This title would fit well for the premature move on Brilliant Speed. I'll have to watch it again, but at first glance, te horse hung for a reason.

lol..i was waiting for someone to say i was a horrible handicapper....i wouldnt have hit the pick 4 with a 1,000 ticket

Repole must have been all over that exacta as it only paid 928.00

You might be right, that was the $2 payout, correct?

Yup

race 1--horrible favorite, did run pretty damn good to win though
race-2--loved the winner
race 3--another horrible favorite winning, where were all the damn horses
race 4--beginning of bias blah on the winner
race 5--not insane
race 6--ok not so insane either
race 7--not insane
race 8--super insane, this horse sucks. It was a race between two horses, instead some loser horse rides the bias to win
race 9--yeah horse wins race who had no business winning
race 10--head scratcher, with straight story in there, plus with all that class and talent
the belmont---no freaking comment

I'm happy for George and Lori Hall. Silver lining of the whole Ruler on Ice win...no on camera remarks by Barry Irwin about trainers or drugs the entire time.

Happy for the jockey too.:) Great post race interview.

Just saw the head on of the start on Versus. Did Isn't He Perfect come over on Mucho Macho Man? It looked like that's what caused the squeezing of Animal Kingdom.

I guess i don't understand this one. The #2 clearly likes the slop and could easily be a real race horse.

I think AK was squeezed by MMM and Monzon.

It was tremendous.
:tro:

I hate Valdivia...maybe even more than Chavez and Luzzi.

Well. let's be honest, no one will ever top Luzzi in my book.

Well, all you had to do was bet the only horse in the field with a win in the slop, of course that was a maiden win and his breeding suggested 8 furlongs would probably be his limit...crazy TC year, three different winners is one thing three horses at these prices is another. 23 of 24 graded stakes for 3yo's won by different horses...this is enough to make me stick with Penn National.

Look at MMM. It didn't seem like he was going into AK out of nowhere. When they showed the head on in the Belmont recap show it looked like MMM broke fine as did AK, then Isn't He Perfect goes into MMM who goes into AK. Of course, if AK had been a little quicker on the draw at the break, he'd have not been in the position to get clipped in the first place. It just looked like Rajiv was trying to save ground, and that's what started it. I don't know that you blame Ramon for that one.

Clearly, Johnny V is not adept with these kinds of mounts. Most of his stakes wins have came aboard heavily favored Pletcher runners. I surely hope Barry Irwin replaces him with a real jockey like Robby Albarado.

ummm

Sadly, it will get dumber than this, but it won't be easy.

Waiting impatiently for your 44th post.

What happened 5 weeks ago in Churchill? Did the rest of the field lay down on purpose so Johnny V could win the Derby?

:zz:

^^^ The result of having to wait a few hours before someone finally posted free pp's!!

:zz: "Where the rubber meets the...sky!

Have felt this way about Johnny V. for a while now...And i hated that he was the replacement for Robby in the Derby since i had a nice future wager on AK. Not very adept on come from behinders on the dirt for sure. Wonder what his ROI is over the years in Stakes? You people can think what you want but I'm allowed to have very valid opinions too! Andy and Andy are so blinded by east coasters it's pathetic on both of your parts!!

after jv got hurt i think in 06 he was a bit timid in his return .but that was years ago.trust me the rest of the world would love to have jv on any horse.

Most of the world wants to hang with HOOVES in Vegas...Too Bad.

i shall return..after chile and toga..sorry man