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Old 02-17-2008, 05:42 AM
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I had written off Big Truck as being simply a good New York Bred with limited Open capabilities. He showed me something yesterday.
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Agreed.. Was really thinking that Tagg had just overstated the horse's potential. He carried on last summer about him extensively, (for Tagg anyway), and when he was ordinary in the Remsen and dreadful in the Hutch, it seemed like there just wasn't much there. He's a great horseman though, and if he thought the colt had talent, we probably should have just trusted his judgement. Cost me the VERY generous tri yesterday as I left him out...
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Old 02-17-2008, 05:45 AM
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I was at Toga for his Very Impressive maiden win and very memorable race call "Big Truck Rollllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllssssssss". Are you as dissapointed in Z-Humors performance as I was.
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Old 02-17-2008, 07:12 AM
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I was at Toga for his Very Impressive maiden win and very memorable race call "Big Truck Rollllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllssssssss". Are you as dissapointed in Z-Humors performance as I was.
No.. As I mentioned in the blurb, I doubt whether Mott really was looking for much. He gave him a full month, five weeks in fact, off the Jackpot, and only gave him a half mile and three moderate 5f breezes after that. A race is worth 5 workouts, and since he's already a GSW and multiple GSP, there's no harm in an ordinary performance in a listed stake. Tampa is famous as a place where horses leave fitter than they arrived. If he's blah next time, I'd get concerned.

He has to 'get faster' yet too, so I'd look for Mott to begin to try to sharpen his speed this next period before the FL Derby or whatever he's pointed toward. May end up as too slow when it's all said and done, but being out of an AP Indy mare, he should continue to improve with maturity and added distance.

(As a proviso on all this, the one thing that I wondered about with Z Humor from the get-go was the $240k KEE price. That said something wasn't 100% with him as a yearling since the DistHumor's average had to be twice that and his fee is $300k. Hope it doesn't turn out that Mott has already gotten what he can from him.)
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Old 02-17-2008, 11:25 AM
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Agreed.. Was really thinking that Tagg had just overstated the horse's potential. He carried on last summer about him extensively, (for Tagg anyway), and when he was ordinary in the Remsen and dreadful in the Hutch, it seemed like there just wasn't much there. He's a great horseman though, and if he thought the colt had talent, we probably should have just trusted his judgement. Cost me the VERY generous tri yesterday as I left him out...
Same... had played a heavy Fierce Wind/Smooth Air box and felt pretty sick when Big Truck (a horse I had been on for a while) split them for a $348 tri...
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Old 02-17-2008, 03:27 PM
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Steve, going to give the pk4 another shot today, playing with pmac. Honestly have nothing better to do and I love it. Good luck today.
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Old 02-17-2008, 04:22 PM
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Hate this card. With backups I would be over a grand in tickets and that might only buy me 3 of 6 so I will just play my main and hope to get lucky.

R5-9
R6-6,11,13,14
R7-1,5,6
R8-7
R9-1,2,6,9
R10-6,12

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Old 02-17-2008, 04:34 PM
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5: 1,9
6: 13,14
7: 5,6,7,8
8: 2,3,7,8
9: 5,6,10,12
10: 9,11
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Old 02-17-2008, 04:42 PM
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5: 1,9
6: 13,14
7: 5,6,7,8
8: 2,3,7,8
9: 5,6,10,12
10: 9,11
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Old 02-17-2008, 05:03 PM
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Found the 6 way to difficult to play today. So just trying my hand on the 300k pick 4., which i also found difficult..

1-3-5-6-8
4-6
1-2
2-3-8-12
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