|
|
 |
|
|
|
#1
05-02-2009, 08:04 AM
|
||||
|
||||
What a God Damn joke. 9:00 sportscenter and sports center news and not a mention of it (but I didn't honestly expect them to pick the story up). The best is TVG showing a preview of the Derby featuring I want Revenge. Then they wonder why no one takes them seriously.
Oh Yeah, and this really F's up my betting plans.
__________________
Felix Unger talking to Oscar Madison: "Your horse could finish third by 20 lengths and they still pay you? And you have been losing money for all these years?!" 
|
|
#3
05-02-2009, 08:06 AM
|
||||
|
||||
|
No reason given yet?
__________________
"Until one has loved an animal, part of their soul remains unawaken. 
|
|
#4
05-02-2009, 08:07 AM
|
||||
|
||||
|
I think the most likely winner, and the likely runner-up, will be in their stalls when the gates open.
|
|
#5
05-02-2009, 08:09 AM
|
||||
|
||||
|
The Bloodhorse article just said a physical problem. I hope the horse is alright.
__________________
"Until one has loved an animal, part of their soul remains unawaken.
|
|
#6
05-02-2009, 08:13 AM
|
|||
|
|||
|
holy crap. i thought it was a joke when i saw the thread.
just a few weeks ago, we were talking about how some of the horses this year seemed pretty good. now we're going to have a field with not ONE grade one winner on dirt in the field. the race is shaping up to be a sad shadow of what we were looking towards not very long ago. now i really wish rachel alexandra had run here. the three best 3 yo's we've got, and none in the race. but i can't help wondering just exactly what is going on-esp considering the trainer. something not going to clear post-race? did the owners end up paying the price because they didn't take heed from the gato go win fiasco?
|
|
#7
05-02-2009, 08:12 AM
|
||||
|
||||
|
Quote:
I went from being extremely interested in this race to caring very little. Dunkirk you better be a hero. 
|
|
#10
05-02-2009, 08:25 AM
|
||||
|
||||
|
Do the horses outside of 13 move over? That doesn't seem fair to the horses who picked outside the main gate and inside the aux gate.
__________________
"After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn't do it. I sure as hell wouldn't want to live in a society where the only people allowed guns are the police and the military."...William S. Burroughs
|
|
#11
05-02-2009, 08:18 AM
|
||||
|
||||
|
There are 19 other horses entered folks.....although this does reminds me of the morning of the '92 Derby when AP Indy scratched.
__________________
"Change can be good, but constant change shows no direction" http://www.hickoryhillhoff.blogspot.com/
|
|
#12
05-02-2009, 08:27 AM
|
|||
|
|||
|
Quote:
|
|
#14
05-02-2009, 08:30 AM
|
||||
|
||||
|
Quote:
__________________
"Change can be good, but constant change shows no direction" http://www.hickoryhillhoff.blogspot.com/
|
|
#15
05-02-2009, 08:13 AM
|
||||
|
||||
|
Well - my gimmie I Want Revenge over Quality Road exacta with a long gap back to 3rd from ten days ago is going as swimmingly as my Rachel Alexandra over Justwhistle Dixie exacta with a long gap to 3rd went yesterday.
3 of the 4 scratched!
|
|
#17
05-02-2009, 08:15 AM
|
|||
|
|||
|
Quote:
you curse, you.
|
|
#18
05-02-2009, 08:19 AM
|
||||
|
||||
|
I do hope IWR is OK. This really takes the flavor out of the day for me.
I have no freakin' clue what to do with the race.
__________________
"Success does not consist in never making blunders, but in never making the same one a second time." - Josh Billings
|
|
#19
05-02-2009, 08:23 AM
|
|||
|
|||
|
Quote:
now, we don't have to worry about that.
|
|
#20
05-02-2009, 08:32 AM
|
||||
|
||||
|
I wouldn't hesistate to bet I Want Revenge, Quality Road, The Pampelmousse, Rachel Alexandra or Old Fashioned had they been the only of the five to show up.
It's now like a who's who lineup of horses whom I don't think are the five best chances to win this race from this crop ... and with an off track and confusing pace scenario as well. If you look at Moss pace figures - six furlongs is the pace call for me in a 10f race - and on Moss number Dunkirk has the outright best last out fig at the pace call both LAST TIME OUT and TWO STARTS BACK!! My pace numbers don't have Dunkirk with a double fig on the field .. but I have him about as fast as anyone for 6fs as well. Obviously there are no pace figs for Regal Ransom - and he's probably faster. I realize Dunkirk won't be on the lead after six furlongs no matter what everyone's pace numbers say ... but it goes to show you how messed up the pace picture is - as well as the race is.
|
 |
| Thread Tools | |
| Display Modes | |
|
|
Hybrid Mode
