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Boring Derby??
Maybe it's just me but I found this year's Derby incredibly boring. I'm glad everyone had a clean and safe trip though. For about 3 seconds I thought we were going to have a showdown between AP and Firing Line. I like AP and thought he ran a fine race but the overall experience for me this year was just "meh".:eek:
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Agreed, same 3 all the way around and not very fast but way it goes
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When the best horses in a race are all tactical speed types, there is no cheap speed,so the pace is not pressed, you are going to get a chalk-fest like today's Derby. It was extremely formful, and might as well have been a 5 horse stakes race like Santa Anita and Belmont grind out with regularity now. The rest of the horses were window dressing and most never had a realistic opportunity to be involved.
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seemed like a pretty good race to me. ...a win is a win!!!!!:):):):)
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I heard discussed a lot this week that point system may have something to do with this. It keeps all the sprint types who may have qualified previously on earnings from being in the field. In past years they were the ones who helped push the early fractions. Not saying its a bad thing but I definitely think its a good observation that played out yesterday.
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Due to the TVG adw blackout of track feed, i had to watch NBCS. BORING,
Never saw paddock, post parade, etc. took me out of it. Santa Anita redux derby, only Frosting came too late. Thanks to ATR, i learned of Tepins workot w/ the Malibu horse and made my day. |
I must have been watching a different Derby. But then again the tri I picked, came in and $200 on AP was not too bad either. It wasn't chalky (not my problem the betting public saw it right) since down the stretch any three of the top three could have won it but the best and most talented horse did, much to my liking (bet or not bet) . . . because that doesn't always happen either.
BTW, not in any particular order after the tri, the top six horses in the race I picked showed up as the top six in the race. And that rarely if ever happens for me. Those not on the AP bandwagon yet will just have to join in later or stand on the sidelines and watch the parade go by. I have reserved enthusiasm right now. We'll see. |
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I also hated NBC's coverage of the Derby. Can we lose all the BS with the ice skaters PLEASE???? I'd like to hear more about the horses and the owners, trainers and jocks. As soon as the race was over NBC went right to golf. No analysis of the race, no information about how the other finishers fared. I didn't even see them talk to the winning owner but I may have missed that.
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And for God's sake, shut up about the hats.
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The scratch of Stanford was the key to the race. He was definitely going to gun and it was a question of which of the Baffert's would engage. As it was all other horses decided to change tactics that got them to the derby and not get involved in what should have been a strong pace. As it was the race ran like a Euro Turf race with the top 3 not really testing each other until the Sprint for home. The duel down the stretch was anything but boring.
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For some reason, this year I didn't have a clear cut favorite horse. Several of my early faves were taken off the trail early on. I just wasn't as excited about the Derby this year and the lame coverage did nothing to increase my enthusiasm. I was happy to see BB back in the winner's circle though, just like old times!! I had Frosted but I wasn't even very excited about him. I was truly appalled by the coverage though.
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Nice Score! Share your secrets for the preakness (and other races) next time. |
I have an idea next year for all those that hated the coverage. I do it all the time. I watch the non Churchill races I want to bet on my ADW and go downstairs to watch the Derby Day races at 1 minute to post on the big screen. All I watch of the coverage is the load and the race. If no races I am interested are running I'll watch a ball game until scheduled post time and change the channel. Life is way too short to torture yourself with something that you can't stand doing.
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I have greatly enjoyed the coverage in the past, just not this year. I enjoy watching the vignettes about each horse and owner/trainer/jockey. I know some people don't like that 'fluff" but I want to hear about, and see the horses.I don't know why 2 ice skaters have to play such a big role on Derby Day. In the past the "hoopla" as we call it has been really entertaining to watch. I don't want to turn on the race i minute before post. I want to be entertained.
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I have only one complaint regarding the race.
I don't know who that dipshit couple was (he had a rose hat) but they need never appear again. Thought the finish was good, I like having horses together with the finish coming up. |
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Come on folks, it's the Derby...I hear the same old tired complaints every year. Look, TV networks are successful by playing to their audience, how much of their audience is made up of hard core horse players? I suspect that the majority of those who were at CD yesterday attend once a year and the TV audience...many don't know which end of the horse goes into the gate first. They tune in for entertainment...the same folks who enjoy shows like Fashion Police and Entertainment Tonight, do you think they are interested in handicapping insights? Sure inane puff pieces by figure skaters and focus on hats and drinks drives us crazy but it's what the TV audience at large wants...grin and bare it!:o
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I thought the coverage was great. We beg for racing to get national coverage and then do nothing but bitch when we get it. Yeah there was some vacuous crap, but there was also plenty of nuts and bolts coverage and plenty of well-produced drama.
As for the Derby itself, yes, it was boring as hell. Merry-go-round with nobody getting involved from the back. Whether you won or lost, that was not an exciting race other than the brief battle between Firing Line and AP. |
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and why not some coverage and interviews of the infield. Come on people, I've been five times and if that's not entertainment, I don't know what is..
......from what I could remember. I mean is it too politically incorrect to show a bunch of smashed people having a great spring time experience? Are you people not born from the Beulah thread? If they're so scared to go in, send a drone over the crowd. Capital FUN. I mean really... |
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If you want change you have to be vocal and if something that could be vastly improved never is one can at least bitch about it. There is no excuse. I cringed when I read however far back it was that NBC had secured the rights to the broadcast for X number of years, how ever many it was. My friends who are not in to horse racing at all thought it was the most inane waste of time... A beautiful thrilling and historic sport deserves better. I'll bet you one day, when NBC is done with it, some other network invests the time and resources and does it right. This is just silly, pointless fluff and it is maddening to try to defend such a unique and riveting sport. Sorry, makes me sick. I will not keep my mouth shut. Quote:
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she seemed ok, but i could not care less who people on facebook or twits think will win. |
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--Dunbar |
This is why I record the show, I watch a couple of other recorded shows and than go back to watch the Derby and all the undercard races so I can fast forward through all the redundant commercials and the crap like those stupid ice skaters, I just don't answer any calls or texts so I don't know who won the race.
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