Beyer caught the wedding and plans to miss the funeral.

[brianwspencer]

Originally Posted by The Indomitable DrugS

If Street Sense wins the Preakness...with another deep closing rail skimming ride....I vow to give up posting on internet message boards for the rest of my life.

Now I'm torn, because clearly I am hoping for the same exact trip as last time torment not you, but someone on the net who I hate.

With that said, I would not enjoy seeing you as a collateral casualty in my quest to royally piss one human being off just as I am starting to enjoy you.

[Cajungator26]

Curlin will get plenty of support in Baltimore. He had raced only three times in his career before the Derby, and although he had won them all impressively, his lack of seasoning figured to hurt him in a 20-horse scramble. Probably it did. Curlin encountered traffic trouble twice in the run to the first turn, failed to secure a good early position, and yet turned in a creditable effort to finish third. He is clearly a talented colt. But he has already done so much in so little time - advancing from maiden company to the 3-year-old classics in the span of three months - that it seems unlikely he can take another huge leap forward and make up the eight lengths by which Street Span beat him. It is more likely that he will regress.

Who is Street Span?

[Bobby Fischer]

Originally Posted by Cajungator26

Who is Street Span?

If he doesn't win, I like 1 Mint Julep.

[2 Dollar Bill]

Originally Posted by Cajungator26

Curlin will get plenty of support in Baltimore. He had raced only three times in his career before the Derby, and although he had won them all impressively, his lack of seasoning figured to hurt him in a 20-horse scramble. Probably it did. Curlin encountered traffic trouble twice in the run to the first turn, failed to secure a good early position, and yet turned in a creditable effort to finish third. He is clearly a talented colt. But he has already done so much in so little time - advancing from maiden company to the 3-year-old classics in the span of three months - that it seems unlikely he can take another huge leap forward and make up the eight lengths by which Street Span beat him. It is more likely that he will regress.

Who is Street Span?

That is the stuff that my AOL flags everytime I log on.... Oppsss that Spam... Never Mind.....

[GenuineRisk]

Originally Posted by brianwspencer

Now I'm torn, because clearly I am hoping for the same exact trip as last time torment not you, but someone on the net who I hate.

With that said, I would not enjoy seeing you as a collateral casualty in my quest to royally piss one human being off just as I am starting to enjoy you.

Brian, DrugS says it has to be winning with another deep closing rail skimming ride for him to stop posting. That's a pretty specific requirement. Did your nemesis on the net say it had to be the same kind of ride? Perhaps you'll get both satisfaction and not lose DrugS, either.

I'm sticking with SS, and hope it'll be the reception after the wedding, not the funeral. Either way, I'm dressed for it. New Yorkers wear black to everything.

[brianwspencer]

Originally Posted by GenuineRisk

Brian, DrugS says it has to be winning with another deep closing rail skimming ride for him to stop posting. That's a pretty specific requirement. Did your nemesis on the net say it had to be the same kind of ride? Perhaps you'll get both satisfaction and not lose DrugS, either.

I'm sticking with SS, and hope it'll be the reception after the wedding, not the funeral. Either way, I'm dressed for it. New Yorkers wear black to everything.

Oh, I could get into it in detail here, but yes he essentially said that with about ten times the pomp and bravado that Drugs did. That he cannot win without it, we're all being lulled into stupidity by celebrating a Derby champion, blah blah blah.

Then he said that those of us who adore Sense should be writing posts/blogs wishing that he would get a bad trip, just so we could shove it in the naysayers faces. Are you serious? Let me wish terrible trouble on a horse I love to prove a point to a pompous troll-esque horseplayer?

So yes, I hope he gets another sensationally incredible rail ride in this race just so I can hear more of the lunacy from my most hated internet persona.

Seriously, it's like Grits (DT R.I.P) on steroids multiplied to the eleventh power riding on an elephant. That's how ridiculous this man is.

Drugs is...well....tame by comparison.

[Cajungator26]

Originally Posted by brianwspencer

Oh, I could get into it in detail here, but yes he essentially said that with about ten times the pomp and bravado that Drugs did. That he cannot win without it, we're all being lulled into stupidity by celebrating a Derby champion, blah blah blah.

Then he said that those of us who adore Sense should be writing posts/blogs wishing that he would get a bad trip, just so we could shove it in the naysayers faces. Are you serious? Let me wish terrible trouble on a horse I love to prove a point to a pompous troll-esque horseplayer?

So yes, I hope he gets another sensationally incredible rail ride in this race just so I can hear more of the lunacy from my most hated internet persona.

Seriously, it's like Grits (DT R.I.P) on steroids multiplied to the eleventh power riding on an elephant. That's how ridiculous this man is.

Drugs is...well....tame by comparison.

Who are we talking about and what did I miss?

[The Indomitable DrugS]

While not on here, I think I said I'd take employment at Taco Bell if Boca Grande won her most recent start.....

While I've munched on a few crunch wrap supremes since than....I certainly didn't keep my word on that one.

Being a man of my word isn't my finest quality....sadly for you guys, I'll probably stop back if in fact Borel somehow gets another unmolested rail trip in the Preakness.

[ELA]

If "it" happens -- I am sure, like in the Derby, people will have very different perceptions of what "it" actually is/was and what actually happened, LOL.

Personally, since the draw -- in my mind -- I have gone around in circles as to how this race plays out. Sure, I want to see the track condition, the bias, etc. I think the best horse won the race in the Derby -- period. I also think the second best horse finished second.

If Street Sense had to go outisde, and so on, does he still win? Beyer says no, maybe not, probably not, etc. I am not so convinced he doesn't win. The exercise in allocating a loss of one length for every path, etc. -- that of course is not an exact science. I guess the question might be, where does, could, would, he have to move to the outside and go around horses?

While the #'s might be very different, and the margin of victory is much greater, the same/similar conversations took place after Street Sense's monster victory in the BC.

Eric

[The Indomitable DrugS]

Originally Posted by ELA

If Street Sense had to go outisde, and so on, does he still win? Beyer says no, maybe not, probably not, etc. I am not so convinced he doesn't win. The exercise in allocating a loss of one length for every path, etc. -- that of course is not an exact science. I guess the question might be, where does, could, would, he have to move to the outside and go around horses?

Saving a path of ground on the turn roughly equals one length of ground gained---however, there is often a cost that comes with trying to save ground. It's the rare exception when a deep closer gets a clear rail-run in a seven horse field--let alone a 20 horse field.

Had Street Sense been moved off the rail, he'd have to circle around the entire field, as there was a crush of horses occupying paths two through five.

It's one thing to save ground....but, even in a much smaller field, it's rare when you can save every inch of ground without consequence.