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Old 05-07-2007, 10:03 PM
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Last Friday I overheard a guy at the OTB saying that the top jocks to watch for at Churchill are Berano and Lepano.
Or at Arlington on Friday about how Tiago was a FULL to Giacomo or some crap.....

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Old 05-07-2007, 10:15 PM
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Friday this guy at the track was ranting about how he couldn't handicap the Derby because they were running it on Polytrack and none of the horses had ever run on it before. I bit my lip on that one and figured I'd just let him keep thinking that.
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Old 05-07-2007, 10:59 PM
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One of the folks interviewed on tv said his pick was "Toof-less-burg"... not the same thing as Street Smarts but this was someone who was supposedly a big fan who clearly hadn't been watching anything on television or talked to anyone about the horse. It was good that Circular Quay didn't do better than he did...the announcer was mispronouncing his name but didn't have a reason to say it more than once or twice, thus annoying me less than it would've.
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Old 05-08-2007, 12:07 AM
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These storys are nearly as annoying as how the media has played up SS being going from "19th to 1st", totally unaware of how that is his style of running. It wasn't "amazing" that he did it, and we all know that if he was leading early he never would have had a chance...

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Old 05-08-2007, 12:18 AM
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I'd have told him every derby had been run on polytrack...
Not to be confused with that polyester track.
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Old 05-08-2007, 12:40 AM
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Not to be confused with that polyester track.
Once when Frank was talking about it on TVG he got annoyed at calling it a synthetic surface I think and basically went 'ah screw it, "all-weather"...'
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Old 05-08-2007, 03:43 AM
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And the most ironic thing is .... a good portion of those people probably bet on Imawildandcrazyguy because they thought it a cool or funny name, and those were the superfecta winners ....
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