Wow, Churchill Downs is a paved highway today
 

..it has been hot and dry here in Louisville the last few days and will be in the upper 90s again today....after watching the first race where maiden claimers just went fast all the way around the track and finished a mile in 1:36, we could see some seriously fast times produced today, especially with horses like Slider and Don't Get Mad running....Don't Get Mad ran 1:36 when he won the Derby Trial last year at CD and the track seems to be as fast-looking as it has been in a while....not much kick-back on the dirt when you watch it...it almost appears like they are running on powder because a little smoke-like spray is what comes up when they travle over it....track does seem to be playing fair though...

Have to agree with that!!!!

It has been affirmed....maiden claimers in the second race just went six furlongs in 1:09 and 3....

Its like Keeneland with the twin spires!!

Yep, Slider just went 22.40, 44.40, 1:08.60 and 1:21.40 for seven furlongs in wire-to-wire fashion....FAAASSSTTTT! - especially for starter nickel horses...Wow!

No way I can take DGM on this track.I mean, that gray was looking to give it up,and the track just said to keep stumblin' n bumblin' and you will be surprised the riches you shall see.Got to pass on the 9th race,or try to get the Metro to keep rollin' along up front.

Again, cheap horses running fast at CD....nickel claimers just went 1:09.60...Wow...fast as hell out there today....As for DGM, I just think that Metro will get enough pressure from a fresh Buddy Gill and others to set it up for Don't Get Mad, who should exude his class here...Plus, Metro doesn't give the impression he wants to go that far anyway...we'll see!

It's a sizzlefest, that's for sure. Whoever wins that race stands a pretty good chance of breaking the track record of 1:28.0. Also looking forward to the 8th ... looks like the Senior Tour... a couple 7 yo's a couple of 9 yo's, even the 11 yo Gretchen's Star is in. Interesting couple of races....

But it's fair. Haiaccept was the best horse in the fifth race but he needed to come from off the pace. And he did it quite professionally. Of course, a time of 1:09.72 is a bit faster than he has run before.

I hope Mad isnt ready. ALive in the pik-4 with 4 horses(including Mad) but would rather see a better price. Here is hoping hes not tight or resents a track surface that resembles the surfaces he despised in California. That went through my head when I decided to spread out here as opposed to singling Mad as I was originally going to do.

Well,they were able to catch the cheap speed in the 7th,and Bejarano just won a race.So,Mad will probably get up.I have him live to the 3 horse in the last for the p4.Want Metro to win it(live to 2,3,4,5,6,11 in the last ..for p4.)I've been slumpin'.So,it will probably be Mad(or somebody else other than Metro,)and then somebody other than the 3 in the last.

I've been waiting all day to bet the 5 in the last. The horse who beat him in his first on the turf won the Arlington Classic on Saturday, not just an N1X next out.

It's so sad to see a grand old campaigner like Lucky Baldwin falling down the claiming ladder; he won for $20K as recently as last fall. He's won nearly $250K in his career, so he owes nobody nothing. He needs somebody to be looking for his second career.

Oh come on.F'N COME ON.SHT ON ME.

Yep, new track record... 1:27.97.

Stud alive for major scores with two horses in the pik-4 here. Need the 2 or the 3, root me home brother.

I can understand him having a great day,and upsetting.I just don't understand how Greater Good dusts me on the backstretch(going into the turn.)Wow.Racing has a new way of f'n ya each day.

THEY WENT IN 23? GUIDRY let him go by him running 23? Oh thanks Guid.Lot of help you were.

hope you used gg in the 9th...ans the bomb play the 8..in the 10th ill have 1/4 of my days winning on the 8plc show..langfur .stall.jacinto on fire..

Did Greater Good really win that race?

How in the hell did that happen? I didn't get to see it.