Slew's Tizzy.. stuns Lex @ 40-1

[Kasept]

Very impressively wire to wire in sharp fractions..

[ddthetide]

bombs away!

[Hickory Hill Hoff]

Wonder how this will stack up versus last weekend's Blue Grass???

[AeWingnut]

I thougt the exacta was a little short
someone knew it was going to happen

I've hit better payoffs with shorter odds is all I'm saying

wow

the only horse to hit the board for me was #1

sigh

[Hickory Hill Hoff]

Originally Posted by AeWingnut

I thougt the exacta was a little short
someone knew it was going to happen

I've hit better payoffs with shorter odds is all I'm saying

wow

the only horse to hit the board for me was #1

sigh

The 7 was the only for me...3/2/8 were my top three, they finished bottom three

[TheSpyder]

unreal...to bad my lucky numbers arnt 6-10!!!!

Belgravia, Soaring By and Forty Grams were crippled. It was ugly to watch.

[Pedigree Ann]

The jocks have finally figured out that they CAN set slow fractions and still win IF they have a good enough horse. Teuflesburg wasn't good enough.

[Kasept]

Originally Posted by Pedigree Ann

The jocks have finally figured out that they CAN set slow fractions and still win IF they have a good enough horse. Teuflesburg wasn't good enough.

Those fractions weren't slow. They were square and honest. He ran them off their feet.

[rgustafson]

Originally Posted by Kasept

Those fractions weren't slow. They were square and honest. He ran them off their feet.

steve, your post is right on the money. Very honest fractions and the track played very much like it did on Thurs. As far as Beyer's column about Keeneland, he knows next to nothing about how this surface will play from day to day, just like the rest of us.

[Kasept]

Originally Posted by rgustafson

steve, your post is right on the money. Very honest fractions and the track played very much like it did on Thurs.

RG,

I thought he ran a terrific race... Look at the internal quarters and internal halves.. Outstanding..

:23.4
:24.1 (:48.0)
:24.2 (1:12.2/:48.3)
:24.2 (1:36.2/:48.4)
:06.2 (1:43.1/:30.4)

Rebuffed every challenge and spurted away at will when confronted.. Well prepared by Fox for this... Well ridden by Albarado, whom I roundly criticize regularly but has had a great spring... The question begs where this colt could have been had he not clipped heels in the Risen Star...

[rgustafson]

Originally Posted by DaHoss9698

With all due respect, Beyer was pretty spot on for the first week and a half or so of the meet and the track was even more biased towards closers last fall. Just this week the track seems to be more condusive to horses on or near the pace. How many wire to wire winners were there the first 10 days? A handful maybe.

DaHoss, my point is that there have been a grand total of 28 days of racing over the Keeneland poly. I just think that it is way too soon to come to what may prove to be unwarrented conclusions about the surface.

[Hickory Hill Hoff]

Originally Posted by DaHoss9698

Agreed and the track is definitely playing different than it was last week. Seems faster, more kind to speed.

I think the way the jocks rode that race last week (Blue Grass) was the main reason it was run so slow. Nobody wanted to run on the front end because the way the track was playing against "speed". Run like a turf race, the main players didn't want to get "killed" in that prep. That's why I think Great Hunter can bounce back with a good effort in two weeks. I'm not taking anything away from Dominican either and as usual; Street Sense ran his "A" race. I'm giving last week's Blue Grass...a pass .

Originally Posted by DaHoss9698

That's a fair arguement. It just seems to me this week that more horses are running well while being either on the lead or right there. That was a death sentence for the majority of the meet and definitely last year. Not sure if they tweaked the track a bit or what, maybe it's because the weather is a bit warmer as I heard mentioned.

Yeah it's the warmer weather. Still it's almost impossible to play pick 3's and 4's at that track unless you're on PG's level.