Jan 24th at GP just keeps looking weirder and weirder

VOL JACK · #1 02-23-2009, 02:45 PM

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Originally Posted by The Indomitable DrugS

IMO yes. 98 is the fastest Beyer any horse in this entire crop has run in there 2nd career start and going a distance beyond 6fs. And it flirts awful close with the magical 100 number ... which only six Derby starters have done in the last 6 years ... 3 of them subsequently winning the Derby, two finishing 2nd, and the other being Showing Up.

Even if you ignore Beyers 100% - he ran light years better than he did the last time.

Last time - his main competition in the race were involved in a vicous pace battle through wicked fractions and he rated off of them - and won in a race where the final 3/8ths were almost 40 seconds flat.

In start #2 he was caught out tremendously wide going into that first turn by Prado - who abandon the mount but still felt the need to race ride him. Inspite of that he beat the field with disdainful ease. Obviously he had a right to improve some 2nd time out ... but that was serious improvement.

If Edgar took off Dunkirk because he thought Alma D' Oro was better, he really don't know what he has underneath him. Funny that a rider opts off the horse that the leading rider in the counrty flies coast to coast to ride in an N1X ALW.

Scav · #2 02-23-2009, 02:46 PM

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Originally Posted by VOL JACK

If Edgar took off Dunkirk because he thought Alma D' Oro was better, he really don't know what he has underneath him. Funny that a rider opts off the horse that the leading rider in the counrty flies coast to coast to ride in an N1X ALW.

Prado has been horrible. Prado off angle is slowly becoming considered alot more....

VOL JACK · #3 02-23-2009, 02:50 PM

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Originally Posted by Scav

Prado has been horrible. Prado off angle is slowly becoming considered alot more....

I have to wonder if Prado was given the opportunity to ride him back, given the Kamikazi mission he went on going into the clubhouse turn.

Then My first inclination was that it was Dutrow's idea. Who knows..

Sightseek · #4 02-23-2009, 02:47 PM

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Originally Posted by VOL JACK

If Edgar took off Dunkirk because he thought Alma D' Oro was better, he really don't know what he has underneath him. Funny that a rider opts off the horse that the leading rider in the counrty flies coast to coast to ride in an N1X ALW.

Isn't Alma a Dutrow horse who Prado is essentially the main man for?