Favorite win of the weekend?

[slotdirt]

Aside from Barbaro, what was the biggest national horse racing story over, say, the last five years? St. Liam winning the 2005 Classic? Curlin, Street Sense, Hard Spun, and the other 2007 3YO's? Anything else racing-related? It's either Afleet Alex's connection with childhood cancer, Funny Cide's wacky owners and their story, or Smarty Jones. The only actual on-track story that even comes close is probably Ghostzapper.

I think it's foolish to suggest this kind of attention isn't a positive for horse racing. I'm definitely rooting for the long shot Autism Awareness to make the Derby and for the media scrutiny he'll receive because of it, even if the horse finishes 19th.

[Sightseek]

Euroears!

[brianwspencer]

Let's not get ahead of ourselves here.

Won't Autism Awareness almost certainly need to cash another graded check before the Derby just to get in the gate? Isn't the benchmark usually higher than the $90K he earned this weekend?

So, he'll have to do it again. And if he does -- then he deserves to go anyway.

[Scav]

Originally Posted by brianwspencer

Let's not get ahead of ourselves here.

Won't Autism Awareness almost certainly need to cash another graded check before the Derby just to get in the gate? Isn't the benchmark usually higher than the $90K he earned this weekend?

So, he'll have to do it again. And if he does -- then he deserves to go anyway.

It is usually right in that area I think, maybe a defection or two will be needed day of. But he can probably get extra winnings with the 4 horse stakes races they have in So. Cal

[brianwspencer]

Originally Posted by Scav

It is usually right in that area I think, maybe a defection or two will be needed day of. But he can probably get extra winnings with the 4 horse stakes races they have in So. Cal

He's 25th now, from the chart I just looked at. If that's correct, he'd still need to run pretty big in one of the short field Cali races, cuz he's gonna need to pick up at least 30K or so, and sucking up for 3rd in a 200K race isn't going to get it done.

[MaTH716]

Originally Posted by slotdirt

Aside from Barbaro, what was the biggest national horse racing story over, say, the last five years? St. Liam winning the 2005 Classic? Curlin, Street Sense, Hard Spun, and the other 2007 3YO's? Anything else racing-related? It's either Afleet Alex's connection with childhood cancer, Funny Cide's wacky owners and their story, or Smarty Jones. The only actual on-track story that even comes close is probably Ghostzapper.

I think it's foolish to suggest this kind of attention isn't a positive for horse racing. I'm definitely rooting for the long shot Autism Awareness to make the Derby and for the media scrutiny he'll receive because of it, even if the horse finishes 19th.

The alleged buzzer/object in Santos hand.