134th New Zealand Derby - Feb 29, 2009

[my miss storm cat]

(I'm talking to myself here, I swear)...

With Sufficient out, I've narrowed it down to 5.

Juice
Easy Ryder
Down the Road
Tell a Tale
I Robot

[_ed_]

Those 5 make sense.

Yeah, postponed 24 hours. And I work Sundays so I can't go. I only started this job last week, wouldn't look good if I had a sick day!

I've been to every Derby since my first one in 1992.

[_ed_]

Actually my amazing boss let me work today, so I'm going to be at my 16th Derby tomorrow.

The weather's improved a lot, it should be fine tomorrow. The track will still be wet, though. Probably in the Slow range. The Derby time will probably be in the low 2:30s.

[NoChanceToDance]

Been bad weather over there, Ed?

I have two friends in NZ at the moment one of whom was meant to go to the Derby.

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Originally Posted by NoChanceToDance

Been bad weather over there, Ed?

Yeah, really bad luck. It was fine all week and then an insanely bad storm came over us on Friday night. They were expecting it to get even worse and last all day yesterday - the prospect of that was the main reason for the postponement, rather than the damage done overnight.

Luckily it turned out not being so bad after all. And it's beautiful today, the track is officially Slow but I wouldn't be surprised if there was an upgrade.

[my miss storm cat]

I keep thinking Diamond Glitter isn't that bad... or am I crazy?

If i were playing it (and I'm not), I think I might use Juice, Easy Ryder and Tell a Tale over Down the Road and I Robot but toss DG in too.

Oh hell I don't know... just make sure you let us know what it was like, how the most Xcellent one looked and how much fun you had ed!!!

[my miss storm cat]

Originally Posted by _ed_

Actually my amazing boss let me work today, so I'm going to be at my 16th Derby tomorrow.

The weather's improved a lot, it should be fine tomorrow. The track will still be wet, though. Probably in the Slow range. The Derby time will probably be in the low 2:30s.

YEA!!!!!