Zardana

[mbahadur]

Originally Posted by VOL JACK

Wouldn't Sheriffs just use her as a rabbit to bother RA on the front end, if he ran her in the Apple Blossom?

If Baffert brings back the horse that won the Azeri (Freedom Star) to run in the Apple Blossom, that should provide Zenyatta with plenty of pace. I cannot imagine Baffert not running the horse back with the purse structure of the Apple Blossom.

[VOL JACK]

Originally Posted by mbahadur

If Baffert brings back the horse that won the Azeri (Freedom Star) to run in the Apple Blossom, that should provide Zenyatta with plenty of pace. I cannot imagine Baffert not running the horse back with the purse structure of the Apple Blossom.

This is true.

[The Indomitable DrugS]

If the real Rachel Alexandra comes back ... the amount of other speed in the race absolutely will not matter to her.

She's run clearly her 3 best races on my final numbers rating kindly just off of horses like Munnings, Gabby's Golden Girl, and Malibu Prayer.

The only question though is how RA comes back. If she comes back as good or better than last year - Zenyatta has no chance.

[DaTruth]

Originally Posted by The Indomitable DrugS

If she comes back as good or better than last year - Zenyatta has no chance.

The alarm for the Zenyatta Defense League goes off in Smooth Operator's backyard.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOUSyoc7jpI

[The Bid]

That's good work on zardana. She was so highly regarded coming over that she almost sent me off a bridge on more than one occasion. She will be a major factor off the paper mâché

[The Indomitable DrugS]

Originally Posted by The Bid

That's good work on zardana. She was so highly regarded coming over that she almost sent me off a bridge on more than one occasion. She will be a major factor off the paper mâché

I remember one of my most annoying butcher jobs as a gambler came on a turf horse named Ay Caramba (sp?) that Eduardo Camaroni trained.

He beat Leroidesanmeaux by 3 lengths in some turf race at Gavea in Leroy's final start in Brazil.

After that race, Leroy went to Bobby Frankel and had won like 4 straight races in awesome style - the latest was a course record or near course record win in the Inglewood.

Ay Caramba was entered in some dogsh!t turf stakes race at a mile at Mountaineer - and was like 20/1 on the ML. He couldn't possibly lose off of his Gavea form.

Naturally he scratches ... a few days later he wins an allowance race on the turf at Churchill by about 3 lengths - goes off at about 9/2 - and I somehow missed that he was entered.

That Ay Carmaba horse ended up being a graded stakes winner over here.

Pico Central also hooked up in a turf race at Gavea against Hard Buck

http://www.drf.com/row/pps/picocentral.pdf

Hard Buck was the blah horse of McPeak's who he took to Ascot for the King Geroge and QE Diamond and somehow got to run 2nd. He also ran 2nd in Dubai with him.

[NTamm1215]

Originally Posted by The Indomitable DrugS

I remember one of my most annoying butcher jobs as a gambler came on a turf horse named Ay Caramba (sp?) that Eduardo Camaroni trained.

He beat Leroidesanmeaux by 3 lengths in some turf race at Gavea in Leroy's final start in Brazil.

After that race, Leroy went to Bobby Frankel and had won like 4 straight races in awesome style - the latest was a course record or near course record win in the Inglewood.

Ay Caramba was entered in some dogsh!t turf stakes race at a mile at Mountaineer - and was like 20/1 on the ML. He couldn't possibly lose off of his Gavea form.

Naturally he scratches ... a few days later he wins an allowance race on the turf at Churchill by about 3 lengths - goes off at about 9/2 - and I somehow missed that he was entered.

That Ay Carmaba horse ended up being a graded stakes winner over here.

Pico Central also hooked up in a turf race at Gavea against Hard Buck

http://www.drf.com/row/pps/picocentral.pdf

Hard Buck was the blah horse of McPeak's who he took to Ascot for the King Geroge and QE Diamond and somehow got to run 2nd. He also ran 2nd in Dubai with him.

There's another interesting piece of trivia about Ay Caramba. Anyone know?

NT

[Merlinsky]

Originally Posted by The Indomitable DrugS

If the real Rachel Alexandra comes back ... the amount of other speed in the race absolutely will not matter to her.

She's run clearly her 3 best races on my final numbers rating kindly just off of horses like Munnings, Gabby's Golden Girl, and Malibu Prayer.

The only question though is how RA comes back. If she comes back as good or better than last year - Zenyatta has no chance.

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Do you think Jackson's worried/paranoid, hedging but confident, or playing Mad Libs again given his latest blurbs about Zardana?