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12-16-2006, 08:24 PM
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Belgravia's 2007 goal should be the King's Bishop....
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#2
12-16-2006, 10:38 PM
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I cannot believe that Kent Desormeaux had the best horse in the race and actually won it. How many times have you seen him have the best horse and screw the horse into a 7th or 8th place finish....
ALostTexan
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12-16-2006, 10:40 PM
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Ill take it....
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12-16-2006, 10:45 PM
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Oh, I'll take it to, and I think that Stormello is a force to be reckoned with, so long as Kent Desormeaux doesn't screw him in the spring...
ALostTexan
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12-17-2006, 12:34 AM
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This was a very circumstantial race in a year when we've had many circumstantial Grade 1 races.
Basically, with the exception of Principle Secret dropping anchor yet again, watching the race was like watching a Merry-go-round. Horses racing 1st, 2nd, and 4th through both the opening 1/4 mile and opening half mile, ended up finishing 1st, 2nd, and 3rd respectively. The 2nd place fiinsher 15/1 and 3rd place 36/1.They produced a $91 exacta and $1,752 trifecta. Stormello had, what is widely considered the best trip in all of horse racing. Being loose on the lead, through very moderate to slow early fractions. An ALW race won 30 minutes earlier by 12/1 pace presser AP Xcellent, at the same distance, featured fractions of 23.07, 45.76, and 1:10.02---all three of which markedly faster than the early fractions in the Hollywood Futurity. The track really wasn't "speed biased" today---though, it was obviously yielding fast times. A track record was set in an ALW race, at 6.5 furlongs, by a horse who dueled for the lead. In a 25K claiming race later on, a horse just missed the same track record while winning in wire-to-wire fashion. This was certainly a very sub-par running of the Futurity.
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12-17-2006, 12:36 AM
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I'm not sure if " sub-par " is the right term. I would go for irrelevent.....for all the reasons you just gave.
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#7
12-17-2006, 01:28 AM
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Well,I think the top 3 get some credit for running well today.That was in no way a track you would want to use for testing the ability of these horses.Belgravia will easly win his next start.Track was a poor test today.The good thing is that they now all have 2 turn races that they can move forward,and progress from.Belgravia is gunna have a big say in what happens in the next 5 and a half months of derby preps,and the Script horse will dominate in 3 year old turf stakes.
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