Your Past Derby Picks

[Pedigree Ann]

Originally Posted by Danzig

i'm showing my age i guess....

Gotcha beat.
High Echelon (1970)
Jim French
No Le Hace
Sham
Agitate
Diabolo
Bold Forbes
anybody but Slew (I dislike favorites)
Affirmed
Flying Paster and Golden Act
Rumbo
Don't remember
Gato!! (a son of My Own True Love, Cougar II)
Desert Wine
Fali Time
Chief's Crown
Broad Brush
Demons Begone (bled badly and pulled up on backstretch)- birth of first child
Private Terms
Sunday Silence - birth of second child
either Mister Frisky or Summer Squall
Best Pal or Hansel
Casual Lies (honestly and truly)
was in Chile for a year, didn't get to see Derby or any preps
can't remember
can't remember (notice what happens when you have young children? Your brain rots.)
Skip Away
Silver Charm rah!
no idea
don't remember
not crazy for anybody
Monarchos
no strong choice, but War Emblem was in my top 5
Peace Rules
didn't care for any of them
Afleet Alex
Lawyer Ron
Hard Spun
Colonel John
Pioneerof the Nile Yep, when in doubt I usually opted for the California horse, since I apprenticed at the CTBA.

[robfla]

Originally Posted by Pedigree Ann

Gotcha beat.
High Echelon (1970)
Jim French
No Le Hace
Sham
Agitate
Diabolo
Bold Forbes
anybody but Slew (I dislike favorites)
Affirmed
Flying Paster and Golden Act
Rumbo
Don't remember
Gato!! (a son of My Own True Love, Cougar II)
Desert Wine
Fali Time
Chief's Crown
Broad Brush
Demons Begone (bled badly and pulled up on backstretch)- birth of first child
Private Terms
Sunday Silence - birth of second child
either Mister Frisky or Summer Squall
Best Pal or Hansel
Casual Lies (honestly and truly)
was in Chile for a year, didn't get to see Derby or any preps
can't remember
can't remember (notice what happens when you have young children? Your brain rots.)
Skip Away
Silver Charm rah!
no idea
don't remember
not crazy for anybody
Monarchos
no strong choice, but War Emblem was in my top 5
Peace Rules
didn't care for any of them
Afleet Alex
Lawyer Ron
Hard Spun
Colonel John
Pioneerof the Nile Yep, when in doubt I usually opted for the California horse, since I apprenticed at the CTBA.

I cant remember what I ate for breakfast, let alone what happened 40 years ago

[Hickory Hill Hoff]

Spend a Buck
Badgerland
Bet Twice
Forty Niner
Easy Goer
Summer Squall
Hansel
Technology (originally picked AP Indy! )
Union City
Brocco
Talkin Man
Unbridled's Song
Pulpit
Halory Hunter
General Challenge / Excellent Meeting (entry)
Fusiachi Pegasus
Point Given
Saarland
Ten Most Wanted
Read the Footnotes
Afleet Alex
Barbaro
Street Sense
Colonel John
Regal Ransom

[lord007]

War emblem was my one and only

[VOL JACK]

2005 (the first Derby I ever bet)
I had 10 Win-Place on Giacomo...
Had Giacomo and Alex on all tri tickets....no Closing Argument.

2006 I made a bundle tying up English Channel and Barbaro in multi's.

2007 Made the Biggest win bet I had ever made (at that point) on Street
Sense...($200) also had small exacta w/ Hard Spun.
Would have made over 8k if Brilliant stays up over Sky Conqueror.
In the Woodford Reserve the race b4 the derby.

2008 I keyed Big Brown on top and paired him with Denis of Cork in tri's &
Supers....but I didn't like 8 Belles at all...cashed nothing.

2009 I was thrown into a tailspin like every one else when the 2 big horses
were scratched...I played Hold Me Back......which has lead me to be
Prez of the Kent Dedumbeaux fan club.

[Port Conway Lane]

Originally Posted by VOL JACK

2005 (the first Derby I ever bet)
I had 10 Win-Place on Giacomo...
Had Giacomo and Alex on all tri tickets....no Closing Argument.

2006 I made a bundle tying up English Channel and Barbaro in multi's.

2007 Made the Biggest win bet I had ever made (at that point) on Street
Sense...($200) also had small exacta w/ Hard Spun.
Would have made over 8k if Brilliant stays up over Sky Conqueror.
In the Woodford Reserve the race b4 the derby.

2008 I keyed Big Brown on top and paired him with Denis of Cork in tri's &
Supers....but I didn't like 8 Belles at all...cashed nothing.

2009 I was thrown into a tailspin like every one else when the 2 big horses
were scratched...I played Hold Me Back......which has lead me to be
Prez of the Kent Dedumbeaux fan club.

My father and I were watching that race from Laurel and we decided since I already had undervalued futures on Closing Argument and he had Giacamo and Alex futures we made a small tri and exacta backer with Bellamy Road on top of those three. Never considered even an exacta box with them.

[westcoastinvader]

I had Genuine Risk solidly "across the board" in a year when "across the board" was still a common wager.

God came to me in a dream and showed me that Plugged Nickel that was not going to win. I had already eliminated Rockhill Native.

God left me in my dream with "bet the filly."

I'm really not making this up. :-)

I had her SOLIDLY across the board.


I play the Derby differently than I play other races. I handicap strongly trying to find a reason for playing betting surprises in the Top 3 or 4.

And I usually make my Derby play my only play of the day. Except for one year when I was at Churchill when Groovy ran in an undercard race on Derby Day. I cleaned up then, too.


Since I attended the Santa Anita Derby this year and have pics and everything, I'd be thrilled if either of the two ML favorites did well. I'll probably buy $2 win tickets on each of them just to have for memorabilia with my Santa Anita stuff if they happen to win the Kentucky Derby.

But I won't be making plays that require them to finish in the Top 2.

[chucklestheclown]

Originally Posted by robfla

I cant remember what I ate for breakfast, let alone what happened 40 years ago

I will only say with authority I did not toss MTB last year. After the late scratch of IWR just did a PON/all box. Where is geeker? He had the tri.

[RolloTomasi]

Originally Posted by Pedigree Ann

Skip Away

You messed up. Skip Away was 2nd in the Preakness and Belmont, not the Kentucky Derby.

I think you meant to put Cavonnier.

[Pedigree Ann]

Originally Posted by RolloTomasi

You messed up. Skip Away was 2nd in the Preakness and Belmont, not the Kentucky Derby.

I think you meant to put Cavonnier.

I had a pretty good run of horses hitting the board at one point, didn't I? Lost a lot of concentration AK (after kids). But Skip Away was the best horse in the race; he just hated Churchill.