What is going to be the Sunday headline for the BC
 

I think Steve Byk should have Contest for who predicts the best headline for the BC before the races are run and he could let winner guest host one day on his show for a day!! What do you say Steve?!!

Here is my headline:

"Richard's Kid comes from nowhere, to Rule the Day!!!"

Rob from the Az

If you get that right, I agree, Byk should have you host.

Yea I took a little bit of a shot. I didn't want to use an obvious one like "Baffert dominates the Cup!!"

"Game Over Dudes. Baffert star locks up Horse of the Year title with dominating win in Classic."

Rosario Flat Out dominates Breeders Cup Day!

It's not going to be the headline obviously ... but I was startled by the fact that I had a very hard time tossing out a DWL horse in a couple spots.

He had that brutal triple digit run of consecutive losers in graded stakes run going earlier in the year.

Hamazing Destiny looks really competitive in the Sprint on CJ's numbers -- I had to really obsess over the fact that he's trained by Lukas and in off a layoff to not like him.

I don't even remember the last Lukas horse I gave a serious look to in the BC. Probably Orientate was the last one.

Mott Dominates the Classics -- Again!

Smith spoils for the second year in a row, Game on Dude beat by a Nose.

Mucho Macho Man...........Much The Best Today

It's Bill Mott's world...we're just training in it.

Not to take away from Wise Dan but what I came away from that race thinking was "what might have been?" had Animal Kingdom not been injured so much of the time. I've always underestimated his talent but it's clear that he's a very, very good horse.

Agreed. B.I. should be allowed to take a baseball bat to that jockey in the Belmont that got AK hurt.

Rock Hard Ten guides Trinniberg and Little Mike to victory.

Associated Press reports that Brian Hernandez, Jr. "rides mostly in racing's minor leagues at Ellis Park and Kentucky Downs."

29 racing days at Ellis and 5 at Kentucky Downs. Must sit on his ass the other 11 months.:rolleyes:

I need to take him off ignore ( and read more here ). If I knew he knocked Trinniberg, I would have tripled my bet.

Hmmmm, $1000 vs having to read his posts....

....nah, I made the right choice.

"larned the hard way"

Great performance by the winner. Is it just me or did Baffert look like he could have killed bejerano?

Yeah, you made the right choice.

for 2 weeks a year.................

Good one. In retrospect, "Baffert blanked/Euros tanked" might have been a good one, but who would have believed it. Obviously, in the Breeders Cup you have to expect the unexpected. On second thought, Maybe that applies to all of horse racing. And yes Baffert did look like he wanted to kill Bejarano and he said something about telling him not to let other horses get the jump on him out of the gate, in a post race interview.

Game Over Dude.

Bejarano found on the take....

I'm pretty sure in big letters it will say "New Zenyatta Doc on HRTV." And then somewhere at the very bottom of that article, mention that Fort Larned won this year's Classic.

east coast DOMINATION.

The best is yet to come: Fort Larned retired

Frankel - Good not Great.

Goodest Of All Time?

Frankel is great -- he beat St. Nicholas Abby and Excalibration (over and over) with absolute devastating ease... the fact that those two finished 3rd and 4th in the BC doesn't take anything away from his claim to greatness.

Maybe it highlights that it wasn't a good year for the quality of Euro's outside of him ... but he buried them all and it's not as easy to bury horses on turf as it is on dirt.

I wasn't that impressed with the Euro's who came here when I evaluated them. George Vancouver and St Nicholas Abby were the only two Euro's I picked on top in the BC this year.

Wrong.

Tongue in cheek ;)

I'm sure you know this but the history of QE II winners coming over here for the BC Mile is abysmal. None have ever won both races while several that lost in England have come over to win here, including Miesque, Barathea, and Ridgewood Pearl. The ones that won in England and came here and lost have burned a lot of money. Remember Zilzal, Warning, Markofdistinction, Mark of Esteem, Desert Prince? More recently, several runners from that race have come over and done well in the Classic. Giant's Causeway, Raven's Pass, and Henrythenavigator come to mind. Even Falbrav ran well in the Turf. Interestingly, the same kind of history can be seen between the Arc and the BC Turf. No horse has won both but several Arc also rans have won the Turf.

My belief is that because the QE II and the Arc are basically the end of season championships over in Europe, horses are trained to be at their very best for those races and asking them to keep their form and come over here to face American horses that are primed to give their best performances in the BC is very tough. How many times to we see the horses that win BC races come back in races like the Cigar or the Clark or any other late season race? When we do see them come back, we often see them lose.

Another thing to think about is something I heard a long time ago from a very prominent American trainer. He said that because of the course layouts for some of those European tracks, the races are more tests of stamina than they are for speed like here in the states and because of that, when horses come over from Europe, their best American distance is at least a furlong further and often more than that. This seems to be especially true when you look at horses that run well at Ascot.