Tampa Bay Derby

corywah · #1 03-17-2007, 05:09 PM

Im not sure if anyone else saw this but it was a pretty cool stretch battle...

POINTGIVEN1985 · #2 03-17-2007, 05:12 PM

yes it was, im a little worried that this might take too much out of street sense, maybe thats just me, also what does everyone think of this guy now, and how good is he ?

ddthetide · #3 03-17-2007, 05:15 PM

great stretch run ! shot through on the rail just like the BC. street sense has guts !

#4 03-17-2007, 05:20 PM

both horses galloped out tired in my opinion, race might take a toll. Track record was announced. Very nice duel by two nice animals... not really sure why JV was content to 3 wide both turns. If this horse is going to have any chance in the Derby he MUST learn to have a horse on his outside. Good race by Saturday, however he has just gone off my Derby radar and I have a future on him.

PPerfectfan · #5 03-17-2007, 05:15 PM

I dont know about yall but I thought it was a great Prep. Street Sense,, I dont even want to say it but, Wow! I dont want to be one that just goes crazy after one race but put it together with his BC trounce, off the layoff, agianst a very nice horse who is dead fit...... Wow. I dont know folks, the BC/KY.Drerby curse might be a goner this year.

GPK · #6 03-17-2007, 05:16 PM

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Originally Posted by POINTGIVEN1985

yes it was, im a little worried that this might take too much out of street sense, maybe thats just me, also what does everyone think of this guy now, and how good is he ?

PG...I wouldn't worry about taking too much out of him...he pretty much loped along for the first 3/4 of the race....made a nice move turning for home...rail opened up perfectly...and was asked in the stretch. I do think he moves forward off this race.

POINTGIVEN1985 · #7 03-17-2007, 05:18 PM

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Originally Posted by GPK

PG...I wouldn't worry about taking too much out of him...he pretty much loped along for the first 3/4 of the race....made a nice move turning for home...rail opened up perfectly...and was asked in the stretch. I do think he moves forward off this race.

i just watched the replay and i agree, this guy is amazing he might be the next big thing in horse racing, he had every reasson to lose today and he still dug in and won im impressed.

mclem10011 · #8 03-17-2007, 05:18 PM

It appeared to me he was doing it easy, and just moved when he had to, and when asked down the stretch show the guts of a BC champ!

Storm Cadet · #9 03-18-2007, 08:52 AM

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Originally Posted by mclem10011

It appeared to me he was doing it easy, and just moved when he had to, and when asked down the stretch show the guts of a BC champ!

I agree...my question is with 7 weeks out, where/when does Naf run him again? He needs to find a race which won't drain the tank.

brianwspencer · #10 03-18-2007, 09:01 AM

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I agree...my question is with 7 weeks out, where/when does Naf run him again? He needs to find a race which won't drain the tank.

Nafzger said yesterday that 'Sense was still on track for the Bluegrass.

ArlJim78 · #11 03-17-2007, 05:19 PM

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Originally Posted by GPK

PG...I wouldn't worry about taking too much out of him...he pretty much loped along for the first 3/4 of the race....made a nice move turning for home...rail opened up perfectly...and was asked in the stretch. I do think he moves forward off this race.

Exactly, he was asked for absolutely nothing until the stretch.
This race should tighten him up.

I have to say that I didn't think AGS could hang with him, but he showed me something losing by only a nose, actually coming back at the end.

Dunbar · #12 03-17-2007, 05:28 PM

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Originally Posted by ArlJim78

Exactly, he was asked for absolutely nothing until the stretch.
This race should tighten him up.

I have to say that I didn't think AGS could hang with him, but he showed me something losing by only a nose, actually coming back at the end.

I didn't see it as "coming back". He was relentlessly coming at Street Sense and oh so slowly closing the gap. An excellent performance by both horses, considering (1) the layoff by SS and (2) the fact that AGS ran a couple extra lengths in the 3 path. The 3rd place horse impressed me, too. He had the outside post, and the head-on shows him veering WAY out into the middle of the track at the start. I think he lost by about 5 lengths, which isn't much considering that start.

--Dunbar

ArlJim78 · #13 03-17-2007, 05:31 PM

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Originally Posted by Dunbar

I didn't see it as "coming back". He was relentlessly coming at Street Sense and oh so slowly closing the gap. An excellent performance by both horses, considering (1) the layoff by SS and (2) the fact that AGS ran a couple extra lengths in the 3 path. The 3rd place horse impressed me, too. He had the outside post, and the head-on shows him veering WAY out into the middle of the track at the start. I think he lost by about 5 lengths, which isn't much considering that start.

--Dunbar

Yeah the seven was nice for me. I keyed him in third for the super and it worked out perfectly.

He really darted out at the start.

BPLichorowiec · #14 03-17-2007, 05:18 PM

Another ground saving trip for Street Sense but still a very gutsy performance in the stretch for his first prep of the year. We will have to see how he comes out of the race, but it may be tough to get in another start for SS if this race took alot out of him. Nafger may now question starting SS this close to the derby, but only time will tell.

mclem10011 · #15 03-17-2007, 05:15 PM

Amazing stretch duel! That race is what this great game is all about. Both Street Sense, and Any Given Saturday just threw down, it was a great race.
I guess Carl Natzger knew what he was doing after all, Street Sense looked great off the layoff since the BC.