Lava Man

[King Glorious]

Originally Posted by Riot

How can you be the consensus selection to win if nobody places you first ?

I didn't look at the DRF consensus (never worked for me <g>). I saw that Brad Free, the main DelMar DRF guy, placed him third behind Hello Sunday and Big Booster; Ellis Star from Equibase put him third behind AP Xcellent, Tiago. I didn't see the rags, TG had LM very vunerable, and the exacta results as very, very likely based on their analysis.

Interesting comments on the Siro's handicapping show this morning, from Cary Fotias. He said he noticed that at Keeneland, the times over the Polytrack are good (meaning reasonable for the class and ability of the horses), but that Del Mar Polytrack is indeed playing extremely slow time-wise. They ran out of time, so couldn't talk about it further, wish they could have.

It's based on a point system. A horse that is selected first gets five points, a horse that is picked second gets two and it's one point for third. The selections went:

Hello Sunday-5, Big Booster-2, Lava Man-1
Porfido-5, Lava Man-2, Tiago-1
Albertus Maximus-5, Lava Man-2, Awesome Gem-1
Sun Boat-5, Lava Man-2, Tiago-1

Total points
Lava Man-7
Hello Sunday-5
Porfido-5
Albertus Maximus-5
Sun Boat-5
Tiago-2
Big Booster-2
Awesome Gem-1