4/26 (CD): Derby Trial
 

10th (5:17) Derby Trial S.

7 1/2 Furlongs | Open | 3 Year Olds Stakes | Purse: $100,000

1 Eaton's Gift Hebert T J 123 LA
2 Lemon Spice Mena M 117 LA
3 Fujita Borel C H 117 LA
4 Kodiak Kowboy Lanerie C J 123 LA
5 Majestic Warrior Albarado R J 123 Blk-On LA
6 Macho Again Leparoux J R 117 LA
7 Da' Tara Melancon L 117 LA
8 Iron Works Pike Theriot H J II 117 LA
9 Turf War Husbands P 123 LA
10 Zulu Magic Castanon J L 117 LA

Should be an interesting race. Credit should go out to the connections of Turf War, Kodiak Kowboy, and Majestic Warrior for having sound horses with the earnings to get in the Derby and resisting the temptation for personal glory at the expense of the horse. Too few are willing to do that these days.

Majestic Warrior has enough earnings to get into the Derby?

At the time they said they weren't going to the Derby he did. You may be right that he's been passed by enough horses now that he would no longer even have the option.

Of course now that I said this watch Turf War run well in the Derby Trial and his owners throw him back into the Derby mix.

No. He has been taken out of Derby consideration for well over a month now.

Yeah, I know which is why I'm crediting their owners. I was just saying now that I credited them for not being stupid watch them wheel the horse back next week in the Derby and make me look stupid.

The beauty of horse racing is that it allows us to look stupid on a daily basis.

I'm going to try to not look stupid in the Keeneland 9th...if Rusty Arnold's horse does not run well then I will have failed.

In general, isn't betting on Rusty stupid by nature?

yes now that you mention it....but I'm hoping this is the case of the proverbial blind squirrel finding an occasional acorn.

Good luck. ;)

That is always a great betting strategy. :D

I don't need horse racing to do that...

Neither do I, unfortunately.

Meant to get back to this.....good call.

Blind squirrel theory worked but 3/2 was not much of an acorn....:)

Everyone stay away from Fuijita, I'm thinking of betting him. :D

sadly you are right. for some of these horses next saturday will be their last race, in all likelyhood . it usually happens every year.

zulu, fujita, ironworks, and majestic warrior tri box

Eaton's Gift