Yeah. :D

Victor Espinoza. Let him pose for pictures on Casino Drive with his yellow Ferrari in the background.

This thread is three pages.

That is really disheartening.

you're a glass half empty guy.

i was impressed it was only 3 pages.

It's early.

It's two pages.

Casino Drive is the best horse ever.

You're right. Should be longer. What we need here is some more discussion about Big Brown, and throw in a psychic for good luck:
http://therail.blogs.nytimes.com/200...tal-ball-says/

Take's a damn good rider, world class infact. I know he did a stint out West a few years ago to luke warm success and perhaps that is what most North American observers remember from him. But in Japan where racing is 1st class, and there are multiple big races, this guy is a big race rider. Sure he gets the mounts but he converts a vast majority of them.

just remember, when doing math, pie are not squared, pie are round!

I have a friend who actually do business with the owners of Casino Drive. Apparently Saturday night my friend was at dinner with some of them in NYC and they mentioned they were going to use Tyrone Carter. Apparently he worked the horse all week, and with Desormeaux committed to BB, they wanted someone now, and they really were impressed with Carter. Rumor is Take's daughter is graduating from high school and refuses to miss it and come here to ride the horse in The Belmont.

This thread is pretty ridiculous, but this is one of the most hilarious things I think I've seen yet :D

No....Lanphear is scheduled to ride the favorite in The Arc later this fall. She is resting up until then.

Speaking of Lanphear, I am sure she couldnt have given a worse ride on Jerkens horse in the last than Cormelio did....cant believe the horse still won.

You know there has to be one person on here who believes what I wrote.

I think there's more than one out there. The tone of the message was so serious, it was almost believable :D

Maybe you are right. Considering some of the people on here. I bet there were a few google searches trying to find out if Take has a kid and if so, when she is graduating.

Exactly, the statistics say he has a 100 percent success ratio riding Better Than Honor offspring in the Belmont Stakes. Would seem to be a simple choice!! But of course John Velasquez has the same success ratio in the same circumstance clouding the choice somewhat.

Take has no experience in the Belmont. That's pretty clear.

It's not like there will be 20 horses. Once Big Brown crushes the Preakness field, no one will want to face him and there will be a 6 or 7 horse Belmont field.

Wrong

Sha Tin might not be in Japan...

just guessing.

They need to bring Darren Beadman's ass over from Australia and let him guide the emmefffer home.

do you mean the defensive back for the Pittsburgh Steelers?

... but the Vivas would miss him! :p

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By all accounts, he's pretty excited about Belmont.....:D

http://sports.nifty.com/take/diary_top.htm

Seriously Darren Beadman is one of the best riders in the world, anyone who observes him for any amount of time I'm confident would come to the same conclusion. I doubt he's going anywhere, he even turned down Godolphin.

Additionally, I would also include Douglas Whyte in the same catagory. He's hardly a household name over here.

He's amazing.:)

Good guess.

Hey, I like Beadman!

Thanks, another I think that is pretty good is Brett Prebble, however Darren and Douglas are in a select league.

Absolutely.

I just tend to over-talk him on the HK threads so figured i should show a bit of restraint here. :D

I would say to whoever is riding, "Get as good of a trip in the Belmont as you did in the Peter Pan."

Rumor from Japanese friends is that Take is now off.....

Shane Laviolette

Yes.

http://sports.nifty.com/take/cs/diar...m#080514002398

I don't agree with anything in there

Damn, I was absent the day they taught Japanese.

The ride on Vodka the other day wasn't much. I'd go with Dutrow's "main man." If he got Bird Droppings to look good, then why go anywhere else? Yea, I'd love to see Prado take this from Dutrow. All this time, he has been his main jock. Now, when he had a T.C. candidate he gives it to the mouthy Cajun. Don't forget he already cost Prado a B.C. Classic Winner (I'm sure he didn't fight the owners that hard on that one, either.) Whatever Prado is on in this race. Play it...Play it..Play it.

Pretty sure Prado was hurt at the time. . .

I'm not overly critical but I've been disappointed with him (on Vodka) in the past.....

I saw that race Saturady night and I really think Vodka had no excuse, hard to blame Take IMO. She was in position, the horse just couldn't pick them up. Perhaps she is not at her best at the moment...The race in Dubai was probably farther than she wanted to go if my memory serves me correct from looking at the past p's Sat - Sun morning. Sorry I have to disagree...