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Old 09-28-2009, 02:51 PM
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Well my 2 alternatives for a win bet didnt hit the board either and I would have never played Z Humor (in any race). As for the 2nd place finisher, the price on him was astonishing to me. 9/5? Joe Talamo is a pretty good rider at a big track like SA but he clearly sucks ass at Fairplex. I watched a lot of his rides the last week of the meet...wow. With his money, he should do the owners and trainers a favor and take his girlfriend to Hawaii for 3 weeks.
Z Humor looked like a tremendous toss superficially on paper. Here was a horse on its way down (when he never was really up), who clearly was not suited to synthetics and couldn't run on turf. Mitchell even sent him to Washington I presume in order to get him back on regular dirt. 3 tries, no dice, just a whatever 2nd place finish. All he had going for him seemingly was his "back class".

Then I realized that perhaps Mike Chambers (Z Humor's WA trainer) on dirt is not necessarily the same as Mike Mitchell on dirt. This all dawned on me about 100 yards before the wire.

I realized (after reading the 3rd or 4th post in this thread) that he also had successful bullring experience 2 years earlier at Delta Downs.

He should have been the favorite.
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Old 09-28-2009, 02:56 PM
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Z Humor looked like a tremendous toss superficially on paper. Here was a horse on its way down (when he never was really up), who clearly was not suited to synthetics and couldn't run on turf. Mitchell even sent him to Washington I presume in order to get him back on regular dirt. 3 tries, no dice, just a whatever 2nd place finish. All he had going for him seemingly was his "back class".

Then I realized that perhaps Mike Chambers (Z Humor's WA trainer) on dirt is not necessarily the same as Mike Mitchell on dirt. This all dawned on me about 100 yards before the wire.

I realized (after reading the 3rd or 4th post in this thread) that he also had successful bullring experience 2 years earlier at Delta Downs.

He should have been the favorite.
Really? I wouldnt bet him again if they ran the same race at the same track in 3 weeks. I think 13/1 was an underlay but wish like heck I bet him!
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