Best Derby bets

[Cajungator26]

Originally Posted by ArlJim78

none of these horses have faced traffic like they will in the derby, so I don't know why you would apply it to one horse, Curlin.

Going from nine furlongs to ten, I much more comfortable going with the faster horse, Curlin, who is not slowing down as much at nine furlongs as other horses like Scat Daddy.

If you are giving credit to Scat Daddy for facing diversity and not folding, then do you also give demerits for when he faced diversity and folded?
Circular Quay, No Biz, Street Sense, Drums of Thunder, they all handled him along the way.

sure he has managed to win his last two but I'm not sure how tough those races were. Notional, Stormello, Chelokee?

big question mark in my mind.

LOL!!!

Sorry Jim... watch the Breeders Cup Juvy again... the Juvy was the only race Scat Daddy finished off the board and IMO it wasn't that horrible of a race for him. Maybe I'm nuts and need to go and watch it again myself, but that's what I saw.

[ArlJim78]

Originally Posted by Cajungator26

LOL!!!

Sorry Jim... watch the Breeders Cup Juvy again... the Juvy was the only race Scat Daddy finished off the board and IMO it wasn't that horrible of a race for him. Maybe I'm nuts and need to go and watch it again myself, but that's what I saw.

what do you find so funny? all of these horses have beat Scat Daddy. I didn't say he was off the board every time.

I have watched the juvy many times. What should I be looking for if I watch it again? No it wasn't horrible, its just that Scat Daddy did not measure up to several of his rivals on that day, and all of them plus others will be in the Derby.

[Cajungator26]

Originally Posted by ArlJim78

what do you find so funny? all of these horses have beat Scat Daddy. I didn't say he was off the board every time.

I have watched the juvy many times. What should I be looking for if I watch it again? No it wasn't horrible, its just that Scat Daddy did not measure up to several of his rivals on that day, and all of them plus others will be in the Derby.

It was the way you put it... "they all handled him."