Curlin is going to Dubai

[blackthroatedwind]

Originally Posted by kentuckyrosesinmay

Who cares about my last prediction? It won't have a thing to do with the outcome in Dubai...

Well, we all saw Street Sense's workout before the Belmont just as we all saw Discreet Cat's workout before the BC...I'll leave it at that. Just because the horses run fast, does not mean they are sound. You see it all the time, and I've seen/been around enough sore horses in the mornings to know that they can run through their problems on race day. We all know how Any Given Saturday turned out after that race at Tampa (another horse that I said was off)... Todd Pletcher was only able to get one truly good race out of him at the end of the summer after giving him a break....

So, I was wrong about Street Sense at the beginning of the year, just as you were wrong about Lost in the Fog. I'm sure we both will be wrong many other times as well. I know that I have been wrong a lot of times before, but who hasn't when it comes to horse racing?

OMG.

Scav is right.......even you weren't this far gone before. I can only hope this is attributable to the very understandable college student's dabbling with very hard drugs.

I hope you get clean before performing your first major triple bypass surgery.

[The Bid]

Shes a doctor too?

[blackthroatedwind]

Originally Posted by The Bid

Shes a doctor too?

Either that or she thinks she plays one on TV.

[blackthroatedwind]

Originally Posted by DaHoss9698

I'm confused. Now I'm a little slow, but Street sense's work before the Belmont? Any Given Saturday had one good race after the Tampa Bay Derby? Huh? Wasn't he awesome in the Dwyer and Haskell and workmanlike in the Brooklyn, to a horse that came back and won a stake?

You think it's easy following horse racing and performing eye transplants in Nepal?

[kentuckyrosesinmay]

Originally Posted by DaHoss9698

I'm confused. Now I'm a little slow, but Street sense's work before the Belmont? Any Given Saturday had one good race after the Tampa Bay Derby? Huh? Wasn't he awesome in the Dwyer and Haskell and workmanlike in the Brooklyn, to a horse that came back and won a stake?

Yes, Street Sense's work just before the Belmont. After that work, they decided not to race the horse because he looked so bad.

I said that he was awesome in the Haskell. Well, the only race that was exceptional was the Haskell. He ran a decent race in the Dwyer beating a mediocre Grade I horse on the dirt (Nobiz Like Showbiz couldn't come near the likes of Hard Spun, Lawyer Ron, Street Sense, Curlin....etc.), and didn't look all that great in the Brooklyn. He was bad after the Tampa Bay Derby until he got the break after the Derby. Then, he transformed into a whole new horse after the break. He was always that talented. Even BTW said that. I thought he was BTW's Derby horse if I'm not mistaken. So, you tell me...

[kentuckyrosesinmay]

Originally Posted by DaHoss9698

I guess I don't get your point. Street Sense had a bad work before the Belmont, so he didn't run. So what? Personally, i think after he lost the Preakness he was never coming for the Belmont, but who cares? What does his bad work months later have to do with your pre Derby assessment? he obviously wasn't that affected by that work because he went on to win the Jim Dandy and Travers.

Again, I miss your point on AGS. He had some issues after the Tampa Bay Derby, was rushed by the connections to make the race and was wisely given a break, then showed he was a good one. his Dwyer was a very good race, i don't care who it was against, he crushed the field.

Think what you want. I'm just telling you what I was hearing, and what I was talking to trainers about.

[Scav]

Originally Posted by DaHoss9698

But what is your point, that is what I don't get?

There is no hope

[kentuckyrosesinmay]

Originally Posted by DaHoss9698

I guess I don't get your point. Street Sense had a bad work before the Belmont, so he didn't run. So what? Personally, i think after he lost the Preakness he was never coming for the Belmont, but who cares? What does his bad work months later have to do with your pre Derby assessment? he obviously wasn't that affected by that work because he went on to win the Jim Dandy and Travers.

Again, I miss your point on AGS. He had some issues after the Tampa Bay Derby, was rushed by the connections to make the Derby and then was wisely given a break, then showed he was a good one. his Dwyer was a very good race, i don't care who it was against, he crushed the field.

BTW, if AGS was just rushed, if that was it, then how come all the other horses like Curlin and Hard Spun were able to run like they did in the Derby...

I don't know, but I don't think that Todd Pletcher rushes his Derby horses...

[blackthroatedwind]

Originally Posted by kentuckyrosesinmay

I don't know...

FTFY

UNC is the Harvard of the South. LOL

[kentuckyrosesinmay]

Originally Posted by Pillow Pants

UNC is the Harvard of the South. LOL

I think that Duke is...but UVA and UNC are the two best public schools on the east coast. I very well may go to the Harvard of public schools. I don't know. All I know is that we have the 2nd best med school in the country, and that we are in the top 5 public schools in the country. I think the next one on the east coast is UF, but it is ranked way behind UVA and UNC.

[kentuckyrosesinmay]

Originally Posted by DaHoss9698

This was so bad, I had to respond again. Are you kidding? You should know they are not machines. To somehow determine that AGS was injured, because Curlin and Hard Spun ran well and he didn't in the DERBY is ridiculous. I think his poor running had to do with owners wanting a Derby horse and rushing him into it. We saw what he did without being rushed.

Curlin and Hard Spun had a tougher campaign than Any Given Saturday at that point in time.

If anyone was rushed, it was Curlin.

[blackthroatedwind]

Originally Posted by kentuckyrosesinmay

Curlin and Hard Spun had a tougher campaign than Any Given Saturday at that point in time.

So, in your lifetimes ( I am assuming at some point in you timeline of existances you were also Ghengis Khan ) of racing wisdom you have also come to the conclusion that all horses are the same.

Spin that one Dr. Welby.

[my miss storm cat]

ERA.....


Curlin confirmed for Dubai World Cup and local prep

The connections of American Horse of the Year Curlin have accepted the challenge of meeting the best from around the globe in the US$6 million Dubai World Cup (Gr.1) in hopes of proving that their horse is the undisputed king of racing.

“We want exactly what the race stands for,” trainer Steve Asmussen said on Monday. “That’s how I hope that others will feel about him—that he’s the best horse in the world. I want others to feel about him the same way I do.”

Principal owner Jess Jackson agrees. In a statement released on Monday confirming the Dubai plans, he said: “It comes down to the fact that Curlin has earned the chance to compete in the Dubai World Cup and has the opportunity to continue to make history as an international champion. The horse’s greatest moments and best efforts may still lie ahead.”

Asmussen said he plans to ship Curlin to Dubai on February 15, with arrival the following morning. Assistant trainer Scott Blasi, who has overseen some of Asmussen’s previous Dubai runners on their trips to the United Arab Emirates, will accompany Curlin.

If all goes well with the trip, Asmussen intends to prep the four-year-old son of Smart Strike in a 2,000-meter race on the dirt on February 28 during the Dubai International Racing Carnival at Nad Al Sheba Racecourse. The month between that race and the Dubai World Cup seems to fit Curlin’s ideal pattern of accomplishment.

“I love the month between the races, a la the Jockey Club Gold Cup (Gr.1) and the (Breeders’ Cup) Classic (Gr.1),” Asmussen said, referring to Curlin’s final two victories of 2007. “The quarantine stuff will be out of the way and he’ll have a month to get ready for the big race.

“The horse likes to know where he’s at,” he added. “His second race at Belmont (the Gold Cup) was better than his first (a close runner-up effort in the Belmont Stakes [Gr.1]), and his second race at Monmouth (his smashing Classic victory) was better than his first (a third in the Haskell Invitational Stakes [Gr.1]). If it’s there in black and white like that, I believe it’s true.”

Curlin is set for a workout on Tuesday morning at the Fair Grounds in New Orleans. When asked how the muscular chesnut is doing following a month of serious training, Asmussen laughed with delight.

“Like he’s a deserved Horse of the Year,” he said. “He’s all that and a bag of peanuts.”

Curlin has won six of nine career starts, including the classic Preakness Stakes (Gr.1), and placed the other three times, earning $5,102,800. Both Asmussen and Jackson are keenly aware that success in a seasonal campaign that includes the Dubai World Cup with its winner’s prize of $3.6 million could propel their horse past Cigar as the all-time earnings leader outside of Japan. The winner of the inaugural Dubai World Cup in 1996, Cigar amassed more than $9.9 million.

Jackson, who owns 80% of Curlin with the Midnight Cry Stable holding the remaining 20%, said he hopes Curlin can become a hero in the sport during his 2008 campaign and help with overall marketing and promotion of Thoroughbred racing.

“I deeply care about improving the state of Thoroughbred racing as well as the horse industry in general,” he said. “We, as the owners of Curlin, are trying to do our part to help. Fellow owners and I have joined others in the industry in a broad-based (American) effort to elevate the industry in a variety of ways, and this campaign is one of the more visible.”

[kentuckyrosesinmay]

Originally Posted by DaHoss9698

I guess I don't get your point. Street Sense had a bad work before the Belmont, so he didn't run. So what? Personally, i think after he lost the Preakness he was never coming for the Belmont, but who cares? What does his bad work months later have to do with your pre Derby assessment? he obviously wasn't that affected by that work because he went on to win the Jim Dandy and Travers.

Again, I miss your point on AGS. He had some issues after the Tampa Bay Derby, was rushed by the connections to make the Derby and then was wisely given a break, then showed he was a good one. his Dwyer was a very good race, i don't care who it was against, he crushed the field.

I have a story to tell. One of my friends purchased a 75,000 dollar horse from a Florida sale. He was a strapping chestnut colt, a Graded Stakes caliber colt. When this colt first raced, there was some buzz about him because he broke his maiden first time out as a three year old by four lengths under a strangle hold. The jock never asked him to run, and was actually holding him back down the stretch. In his next start, he's not moving as pretty and gets beat, but finishes second. He came back with puffy ankles, and has never been the same since. The trainer is very careful with the colt, but is constantly battling the horse's puffy ankles. Yet, the colt still wins races in quite the company because of the careful management. Sometimes, in a race, he even looks back to his old self, but the front bandages tell the story. However, a lot of races, he hasn't moved as pretty as he once did. It is amazing what a little bit of rest, ice, front bandages, and joint injections will do.... However, this cycle never continues because eventually the damage becomes too severe to continue. The horse either gets turned out and, with time, gets better, or is done racing.... The most careful and talented trainers can usually get at least a couple of good races out of the horse under these conditions or can keep the horse going for awhile if the horse has plenty of time in between starts.

[Cajungator26]

[blackthroatedwind]

Originally Posted by kentuckyrosesinmay

I have a story to tell. One of my friends purchased a 75,000 dollar horse from a Florida sale. He was a strapping chestnut colt, a Graded Stakes caliber colt. When this colt first raced, there was some buzz about him because he broke his maiden first time out as a three year old by four lengths under a strangle hold. The jock never asked him to run, and was actually holding him back down the stretch. In his next start, he's not moving as pretty and gets beat, but finishes second. He came back with puffy ankles, and has never been the same since. The trainer is very careful with the colt, but is constantly battling the horse's puffy ankles. Yet, the colt still wins races in quite the company because of the careful management. Sometimes, in a race, he even looks back to his old self, but the front bandages tell the story. However, a lot of races, he hasn't moved as pretty as he once did. It is amazing what a little bit of rest, ice, front bandages, and joint injections will do.... However, this cycle never continues because eventually the damage becomes too severe to continue. The horse either gets turned out and, with time, gets better, or is done racing.... The most careful and talented trainers can usually get at least a couple of good races out of the horse under these conditions or can keep the horse going for awhile if the horse has plenty of time in between starts.

Wilber!!!!!!!

[kentuckyrosesinmay]

Originally Posted by blackthroatedwind

Once again, I think you are confusing real life with an episode of Mr. Ed.

You're kidding right? Because if you aren't about the content of my post, if you don't think that happens all the time in horse racing, then I am seriously laughing right now!

[Indian Charlie]

Originally Posted by kentuckyrosesinmay

I have a story to tell. . . . .

Hey, I've got a story to tell too!!

It goes a little something. . . . like this:

Here's the story of a lovely lady
Who was bringing up three very lovely girls.
All of them had hair of gold, like their mother,
The youngest one in curls.

Here's the story, of a man named Brady (Tom?),
Who was busy with three boys of his own,
They were four men, living all together,
Yet they were all alone.

Till the one day when the lady met this fellow
And they knew it was much more than a hunch,
That this group would somehow form a family.
That's the way we all became the Brady Bunch.
The Brady Bunch, The Brady Bunch (Go Pats!)

That's the way we all became the Brady Bunch.
The Brady Bunch.

Puffy Ankles sounds like a name for a fat rapper.