United Nations/Monmouth 7/7

philcski · #1 07-07-2007, 11:34 PM

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Originally Posted by GPK

Its clear he runs BEST when just off the lead to the outside. He has always been rank early in his races, but today more so than usual.

Clearly not that great of a field today, but you can only race against who shows up. Glad to see him add another Grade 1 to the resume'.

11 wins from 20 starts with in excess of $3.2 million in earnings.

A small field but BTN and Honey Ryder are no slouches. I'm just happy that we got to see him at a 5YO, does anyone honestly think if he were a dirt horse he'd still be around???

I agree with you, he ran what I thought was his best career race this way- last year in the Joe Hirsch.

GPK · #2 07-07-2007, 11:38 PM

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Originally Posted by philcski

A small field but BTN and Honey Ryder are no slouches. I'm just happy that we got to see him at a 5YO, does anyone honestly think if he were a dirt horse he'd still be around???

I agree with you, he ran what I thought was his best career race this way- last year in the Joe Hirsch.

That was a very weird race last year. They creeped the first 3/4 of that race, even though Luzzi was supposed to be on the "rabbit", and EC was 3 wide the whole way.

In all honesty, I didn't fear BTN today at all. It is rare that he fires back to back big races. He ran his race in the Manhattan.

philcski · #3 07-07-2007, 11:43 PM

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Originally Posted by GPK

That was a very weird race last year. They creeped the first 3/4 of that race, even though Luzzi was supposed to be on the "rabbit", and EC was 3 wide the whole way.

In all honesty, I didn't fear BTN today at all. It is rare that he fires back to back big races. He ran his race in the Manhattan.

The whole Icy as a rabbit thing didn't really work, because Icy is a fairly legitimate racehorse in his own right and he didn't seem to take too well to being used early. Shake the Bank had no problem doing that.