8/6 (SAR): John's Call S., Loudonville S.
 

3rd (2:06) Loudonville S.

6 Furlongs | Fillies | 3 Year Olds Stakes | Purse: $70,000

1 Stormandaprayer Maragh R 118 L
2 Nonna Mia Velazquez J R 118 L
3 Simply Spiteful Rose J 118 L
4 Funny Feeling Garcia Alan 122 L
5 Lisa's Booby Trap Desormeaux K J 118 L
6 Zermatt Castellano J J 118 L



8th (4:56) John's Call S.

1 5/8 Miles (Turf) | Open | 4 Year Olds And Up Stakes | Purse: $70,000

1 Always First (GB) Albarado R J 119 L
2 Jade's Revenge Solis A 119 L
3 Solitaire Leparoux J R 121 L
4 Attempted Humor Gomez G K 117 Blk-Off L
5 Dry Martini Prado E S 119 L
6 Lignon's Hero (BRZ) Garcia Alan 117 L
7 Coolcullen Times (IRE) Castellano J J 117 L
8 Lime Rickey Velasquez C 115
9 Gangbuster Desormeaux K J 121 L
10 Leading On Luzzi M J 115 L
11 Perfect Shower Velazquez J R 121 L
12 Silver Mountain Dominguez R A 115 L
AE Rockin' Joe Camacho E 115 L
AE Thabazimbi Lezcano J 115
AE Southwest Cohen D 115
AE Romp (ARG) Albarado R J 115 L

I know Lisa's Booby Trap is kind of a joke but four of these fillies were nominated to the Test. It seems awfully counter-productive to run this race the day before the Test.

NT

Why is she a joke?

The John's Call is a skullbuster by the way.

Solitaire handled Perfect Shower pretty easily in the Singspiel (before Spice Route crushed him late); and he won this race last year. But Attfield is putting Velazquez up, a huge improvement over Jones, and his go to jock lately. Of course, I'm not taking a close look at the race until I know for sure it's ON the turf.

You must not get TVG. . .

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKSSPtd33_8

Maybe I'm not getting the joke. It's a great story, she's got talent and that field tomorrow sure as hell isn't anything special.

Doesn't mean she is a joke

She has the fastest sprint number in the race, albeit at Finger Lakes and I have no idea how solid the number is.

She might not be a joke, but her beyers have declined all 3 starts. Im sure Ateam will love that.....
I would be stunned if she is in the super.

As if the stars hadn't already aligned enough for her to win this.

Then this should really set her up, SHE HAS 0% CHANCE TO WIN THIS RACE. She is a lot more likely to run 5th or last.

To counter your Beyer decline, she is 0-2 = x in terms of Thorograph, this pattern has yielded a return to the top alot.

She runs her debut race, which was huge, she will win

:tro:

Yeah, Nonna Mia really is the second coming of Xtra Heat. You're right.

I think this group SUCKS. All of them, not just the Finger Lakes horse.

1. Everybody in the race sucks
2. THIS HORSE HAS 0% CHANCE AND WILL NEVER HIT THE BOARD IN EVER

I'm not really an avid Sheets user but based on the patterns each of these fillies have, isn't it more likely that Nonna Mia or Zermatt run big races?

The problem, of course with every horse in this race not named Funny Feeling is that you're banking on them rating and being successful. If you have the stones to play a horse in here who you think is speed of the speed you're taking a gigantic chance.

NT

I think Nonna Mia will be the speed of the speed and I think Zermatt will rate.

There's really no way Nonna Mia outruns Stormandaprayer to the first quarter, and so far NM has shown absolutely no ability to rate. I think she's a terrible bet at 2-1. Even though the race sets up for Funny Feeling, she had no excuse in the Prioress so she's hard to take at 5-2. Zermatt beat a terrible MSW field last time out and also isn't guaranteed to rate. How anybody can eliminate LBT is beyond me.

Especially coming off the route race, she will most likely automatically be behind these fillies. LBT might fall into the perfect trip.

I can really care less about the race, but I will watch this one and cheer for her to win, nothing wrong with 'hope'

On this track? Surely you jest. How many off the pace, outside winners have there been so far?

My comment dealt more with figuring out who the speed of the speed is in this field and then betting that horse. It's far from an easy task.

NT

I think NM clears.

Songandaprayer should have the lead early.

Based on what? Stormandaprayer is significantly faster than her early.

There's a 0% chance that Nonna Mia can beat the 1 to the lead. . . She has an incredible amount of speed. The only horse close to capable of running with her early is the 6, who has no chance to get to her from that post.

i agree, and if the track plays like it has, 5-1 will be a good risk on this horse.

You're the best.

What a great story. Now sell her :)

He's so bad it hurts.

I need to check these threads before betting.

why so someone like Pletcher can train her?

I found these two paragraphs from the NY Times article amusing:

Hunt agreed and Snyder’s one-horse stable was back in business. But his filly still needed a name. He came up with Lisa’s Booby Trap, named in part after his wife and in part after a strip club in Florida he admits he likes to frequent.

Working with Lisa’s Booby Trap, Snyder figured out that the reason she was having so many problems was because of her feet. Not only was one a clubfoot, but another was inordinately flat, which caused her every movement to be awkward. Snyder experimented with different shoes and found a combination that solved the problem.

I wonder if the bleeding heart club will still find it a heartwarming story now and not one coming from a complete whackjob.

So now we have a reincarnated wife that's a horse with a name partly due to a strip club. If I didn't know any better I'd wager that he's in the Tea Party.

He supposedly had a 500k offer on the horse, if it is real money, and actually a real offer, he needs to sell that horse to help set him up for his future.

Unless the guy is a multi millionaire, which I doubt since he didn't have the full $5k to pay for the horse, this is a no brainer now.

I completely understand why he didn't do it before, but they are like tomatos, they eventually go bad

Well the horse is his wife so she probably has the final say on being sold. Just depends if she was faithful to him in human form.

Mista Sunshine. Even if he is a weirdo, it's still a cool story/horse.

I'm holding out support for the future reincarnation of Christopher Hitchens. He'll smoke Booby Trap and drink a handle of Old Charter when he's done.

:tro:

Thomas, have you seen this dude? He has a foot in the grave already. All the money in the world won't change that. I hope he just keeps her.