Kentucky Derby cancelled

[Fearless Leader]

Due to the absence of ANY legitimate quality three year olds that can go ten furlongs, Churchill Downs announced that the 2007 Kentucky Derby has been cancelled and replaced on the card with a 1 mile and 70 yards Non winners of two other than allowance race. "The racing secretary felt that this was a more appropriate race given the lack of any decent three year olds and that he could use the two million dollar purse to beef up the overnight races during the remainder of the meet." The first Saturday in May will still be a great day of racing even while shuffling the inept sophmores to the back burner where they belong. There are six other Graded stakes filled with quality nominations so no one will even miss the Kentucky Derby by days end. The blanket of roses will be divided up into individual boquets for the winner's of each of the stakes, and My Old Kentucky Home will be sung before the Early Times Turf Handicap.

[JDank34]

Ridiculous

[GPK]

Originally Posted by Fearless Leader

Due to the absence of ANY legitimate quality three year olds that can go ten furlongs, Churchill Downs announced that the 2007 Kentucky Derby has been cancelled and replaced on the card with a 1 mile and 70 yards Non winners of two other than allowance race. "The racing secretary felt that this was a more appropriate race given the lack of any decent three year olds and that he could use the two million dollar purse to beef up the overnight races during the remainder of the meet." The first Saturday in May will still be a great day of racing even while shuffling the inept sophmores to the back burner where they belong. There are six other Graded stakes filled with quality nominations so no one will even miss the Kentucky Derby by days end. The blanket of roses will be divided up into individual boquets for the winner's of each of the stakes, and My Old Kentucky Home will be sung before the Early Times Turf Handicap.

I thought it was the Woodford Reserve Turf Handicap??

[brianwspencer]

Originally Posted by POINTGIVEN1985

who are you, and is there any point to you posting this ?

Priceless. You're so funny sometimes and don't even know it.

[ateamstupid]

The funny thing is that a thread like this surfaces every year. There's never a Derby good enough for everyone.

[ArlJim78]

Originally Posted by POINTGIVEN1985

who are you, and is there any point to you posting this ?

have you no shame?

[miraja2]

Originally Posted by POINTGIVEN1985

who are you, and is there any point to you posting this ?

If I had a nickel.....

[Cajungator26]

Originally Posted by miraja2

If I had a nickel for every time you posted a garbage and POINTLESS post, I'd be rich.

There, fixed it for you. LOL

[brianwspencer]

Originally Posted by Cajungator26

There, fixed it for you. LOL

ooooh the gloves come off the sweet girl from the south.

[miraja2]

Originally Posted by Cajungator26

There, fixed it for you. LOL

I preferred to leave it a bit more open ended.....but you pretty much got the gist of it!

[Fearless Leader]

It's both sad and funny that instead of taking this thread as an opportunity to examine the facts, which by the way speak for themselves, that this is an extrordinarily weak group of sophmores, several of the teenagers who are members here obviously don't have the intellectual capacity to have a serious discussion and instead prefer to fantasize that this crop is actually legitimate and to ridicule those who have a firm grasp on reality.

Interestingly, this is the same group of novices that don't get the irony that Funny Cide hates the cold weather.

[Cannon Shell]

Originally Posted by Fearless Leader

It's both sad and funny that instead of taking this thread as an opportunity to examine the facts, which by the way speak for themselves, that this is an extrordinarily weak group of sophmores, several of the teenagers who are members here obviously don't have the intellectual capacity to have a serious discussion and instead prefer to fantasize that this crop is actually legitimate and to ridicule those who have a firm grasp on reality.

Interestingly, this is the same group of novices that don't get the irony that Funny Cide hates the cold weather.

They may suck but this is the Derby trail website and we are required by law to discuss the contenders as though they are alltime greats. Except PG, he is exempt.

[SentToStud]

Originally Posted by Fearless Leader

It's both sad and funny that instead of taking this thread as an opportunity to examine the facts, which by the way speak for themselves, that this is an extrordinarily weak group of sophmores, several of the teenagers who are members here obviously don't have the intellectual capacity to have a serious discussion and instead prefer to fantasize that this crop is actually legitimate and to ridicule those who have a firm grasp on reality.

Interestingly, this is the same group of novices that don't get the irony that Funny Cide hates the cold weather.

"Facts" don't speak ...

"That this", as you've used it, is a dangling participle....

No wonder test scores are still down.

How do I get back my tax dollars that went to "No Child Left Behind?"

[Lame Chop]

Originally Posted by Fearless Leader

It's both sad and funny that instead of taking this thread as an opportunity to examine the facts, which by the way speak for themselves, that this is an extrordinarily weak group of sophmores, several of the teenagers who are members here obviously don't have the intellectual capacity to have a serious discussion and instead prefer to fantasize that this crop is actually legitimate and to ridicule those who have a firm grasp on reality.

Interestingly, this is the same group of novices that don't get the irony that Funny Cide hates the cold weather.

I am new to this forum, but I have to say that I agree with you for the most part. The people who have responded to you so far have not taken your premise very seriously. You placed it in a humorous context and they responded in a very sour manner acting like spoiled children instead of either agreeing with you or disagreeing in an adult way.

If this is the level of discourse to be expected here, maybe I'm in the wrong place. I suppose the same people who were so sour with you will now come crashing down on me.

The reason I agree with you is that this year's 3 year olds have not run very fast. All of the prep races have been run in slow times and none of the top contenders seem to have improved much since they were 2 year olds.

[miraja2]

Originally Posted by Fearless Leader

It's both sad and funny that instead of taking this thread as an opportunity to examine the facts, which by the way speak for themselves, that this is an extrordinarily weak group of sophmores, several of the teenagers who are members here obviously don't have the intellectual capacity to have a serious discussion and instead prefer to fantasize that this crop is actually legitimate and to ridicule those who have a firm grasp on reality.

Perhaps I am wrong but it seems like the majority of comments posted before you posted this were actually directed at a poster that criticized you, and not at you at all.
As for your analysis, I think it is pretty much undisputed that this crop does not appear particularly strong at this point.
However, I am a bit confused by your statement regarding "the absence of ANY legitimate quality three year olds that can go ten furlongs." Looking at past performaces and pedigree, I think it is reasonable to think that Street Sense, Great Hunter, and Circular Quay MIGHT be effective going 10f. Great Hunter and CQ in particular are both by sires that did their best running at 10f and beyond, and Street Sense's sire won the richest 10f race in the world! Of course, we never know for sure until they do it, and we all know that pedigree isn't everything, but I think it might be a bit early to write off the entire crop's effectiveness at that distance.