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Old 03-18-2007, 09:11 AM
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Default I still find it hard to narrow, but......
1. Street Sense
2. Circular Quay
3. Great Hunter
4. Nobiz Like Shobiz
5. Notional
Sleepers in no particular order
Zanjero, Hard Spun, Adore The Gold, Any Given Saturday, Rags to Riches
Extremely hard to narrow down, i could throw 10 more in there easy! More preps to come, jockey decisions, of course the possibility of injuries (hope not), lots of intrigue still to play itself out in the next 6 weeks! Love this time of year!
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Old 03-18-2007, 09:14 AM
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Street Sense
NoBiz
Notional
Curlin
Ravel
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Old 03-18-2007, 09:33 AM
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Great Hunter
Circular Quay
Ravel
Street Sense
Scat Daddy

"Sleepers"
SAM P.
HARD SPUN
KING OF THE ROXY
RAGS TO RICHES???
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Old 03-18-2007, 10:15 AM
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Street Sense (even if he would have lost by the nose)
Nobiz
Great Hunter
Scat Daddy
Circular Quay
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Old 03-18-2007, 10:56 AM
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1.) Scat Daddy
2.) Hard Spun
3.) Ketchikan
4.) Any Given Saturday
5.) Zanjero

Some others I like:

Street Sense
Stormello
Bwana Bull
Liquidity
Nobiz Like Shobiz

Still too far away to determine...
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Old 03-18-2007, 11:17 AM
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Still too far away to determine...
Of course its looking way ahead SouthernFrench Crocodilian...

But its still fun.
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Old 03-18-2007, 11:19 AM
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Of course its looking way ahead SouthernFrench Crocodilian...

But its still fun.
Yeah, it is fun. Keeps me entertained.

Speaking of entertainment... the future 2007 NCAA champs will be playing Purdue at 2:15. Haha
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Old 03-18-2007, 11:26 AM
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1.) Scat Daddy
2.) Hard Spun
3.) Ketchikan
4.) Any Given Saturday
5.) Zanjero

Some others I like:

Street Sense
Stormello
Bwana Bull
Liquidity
Nobiz Like Shobiz

Still too far away to determine...
Wow! Liquidity was really kicked to the curb.
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Old 03-18-2007, 11:29 AM
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Wow! Liquidity was really kicked to the curb.
Yeah... he ran a horrible race in the LA derby. Not what I was expecting... and while I can forgive a loss by a few lengths, it's tough to toss out a loss by way more than that.
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Old 03-18-2007, 09:08 PM
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circular quay
any given saturday
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Old 03-18-2007, 11:27 PM
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Circular Quay
Rags to Riches
Great Hunter
Chelokee
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Old 03-19-2007, 06:47 AM
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Old 03-19-2007, 08:45 AM
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If the race was today:
1 - 2. Any Given Saturday / Street Sense
3. Great Hunter
4. Circular Quay
5. Curlin


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Old 03-19-2007, 11:17 AM
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Only two horses have a chance to win the Derby. The exacta will be Notional and Circular Quay. Haven't decided the order but they are sure to be 1-2. It's as much a lock as Smarty and Lion Heart were going in in 2004. The sleepers are Curlin, Rags to Riches, and Scat Daddy. No others matter.

The Tampa Derby was a nice race. But I predict that it was so hard on those two that one or both will be out of the Derby. I believe one will be knocked out before the Derby and the other will be done for the year before the summer is over. Neither of these two horses finishes the summer.
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Old 03-19-2007, 01:28 PM
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Only two horses have a chance to win the Derby. The exacta will be Notional and Circular Quay. Haven't decided the order but they are sure to be 1-2. It's as much a lock as Smarty and Lion Heart were going in in 2004. The sleepers are Curlin, Rags to Riches, and Scat Daddy. No others matter.

The Tampa Derby was a nice race. But I predict that it was so hard on those two that one or both will be out of the Derby. I believe one will be knocked out before the Derby and the other will be done for the year before the summer is over. Neither of these two horses finishes the summer.
Hey KG, given how VERY right you've been before, I'll mark your words on CQ and Notional. With SJ, however, it was easy for even the idiots among us to see the talent from waaaaaay before the Rebel (although mind you, some TRUE idiots continued to insist he couldn't stay until he was in the gate at CD). With CQ, on the other hand, I've watched the LA Derby and I still couldn't get excited about him, 102 Beyer aside...

That said, I'll heed your opinion on these two...
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Old 03-19-2007, 01:51 PM
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Hey KG, given how VERY right you've been before, I'll mark your words on CQ and Notional. With SJ, however, it was easy for even the idiots among us to see the talent from waaaaaay before the Rebel (although mind you, some TRUE idiots continued to insist he couldn't stay until he was in the gate at CD). With CQ, on the other hand, I've watched the LA Derby and I still couldn't get excited about him, 102 Beyer aside...

That said, I'll heed your opinion on these two...
I'm not sure how long you've been reading this forum, but as a public service to you let me just say that KG has been wrong on occaison. I would suggest some restraint before locking in a large derby exacta future wager, if there even is such a thing.
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Old 03-19-2007, 03:28 PM
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I'm not sure how long you've been reading this forum, but as a public service to you let me just say that KG has been wrong on occaison. I would suggest some restraint before locking in a large derby exacta future wager, if there even is such a thing.
Now don't you fret: my few pennies go nowhere near the racetrack, so I won't be running off to the windows anytime soon, on KG's or anyone else's advice I've merely been lurking on this and previous fora long enough to remember KG being quite a soothsayer back in the day...and defending SJ adamantly back when LOADS of people were still saying that he wouldn't run worth a dime against non-Oaklawn competition or past a mile...Has he been wrong since? No doubt. Still, credit where credit is due, and I'm still waiting for him to correctly pick the next Derby winner again already by February (ok, so he's running a bit late if he's right)
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Old 03-19-2007, 03:42 PM
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Smarty Jones was the favorite in that Derby....wasn't he?
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Old 03-19-2007, 03:43 PM
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Smarty Jones was the favorite in that Derby....wasn't he?
Morning line fave was The Cliff's Edge, but Smarty went in the gate as the favorite.
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Old 03-19-2007, 03:50 PM
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Smarty Jones was the favorite in that Derby....wasn't he?
Yeah, he was on the day, but Smarty definitely wasn't the favorite back in February when KG insisted to forum members that he would win the Derby...shucks, KG, I'm probably embarassing you, right?

Anyway, for anyone who remembers, it was certainly KG's moment of glory and thus my regard for his picks, even if they all can't be as good...
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