DTers Road to the Roses Contest

[txshorns02]

Originally Posted by Withers

Yeah, well, I'm kind of kicking myself for picking Asmussen too. O'Neill no doubt would have been a better choice. On numbers alone, though, one should have gone for Pletcher and then Zito (18) I think...or Baffert (17).

Picking the trainer with the most horses in his stables isn't always the best for this game. If you like a particular horse and you think he can win the Derby you take his trainer. For example, last year Matz had one great horse (Barbaro) and if I'm not mistaken, I believe Matz was the highest scoring trainer.

[Withers]

Couldn't agree more -- I was just responding to pgardn giving me a bit of friendly teasing because I picked Asmussen over O'Neill, and I was trying to say that I HADN'T chosen on the basis of the numbers game alone -- or I would have gone for Zito or Baffert. Your point about Matz is actually what I was thinking to myself when I was looking at all the trainers with one big shot -- like Tagg again this year. I am just not astute enough to be able to pick the Derby winner (and thus his trainer) in February -- nor on the first Saturday of May for that matter! Last time I succeeded in doing that was when Smarty Jones won!

[ddthetide]

the first year i played, i didn't follow close enough and missed out on some points. the second year half my stable was hurt by mid april. last year i made nice horse picks but didn't have the right jockey, trainer combo and still scored 180 pts. i was plenty happy with that !
before i picked this year. i looked over the guy's picks that won it last year. he had Barbaro,Prado, Matz, thats a lot of points and luck.

[Nascar1966]

Has anyone gotten the PP's to work at the website?