Tips/Thoughts on Breeders' Cup tickets this year?

blackthroatedwind · #1 10-25-2008, 07:48 AM

Pure Clan, much like the winner, ran to her pps.

I wonder how she would have done in the QE II.

fpsoxfan · #2 10-25-2008, 07:58 AM

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Originally Posted by blackthroatedwind

Pure Clan, much like the winner, ran to her pps.

I wonder how she would have done in the QE II.

Andy, How's the weather shaping up today down there? Any chance of things staying on the turf?

blackthroatedwind · #3 10-25-2008, 08:04 AM

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Originally Posted by fpsoxfan

Andy, How's the weather shaping up today down there? Any chance of things staying on the turf?

We haven't had rain in nearly a month and it is closing weekend.

I expect we will be on the turf....plus it really hasn't rained yet.

Thunder Gulch · #4 10-25-2008, 08:17 AM

I had WAW on some P3 tickets, but come on guys, the winner was just better.

ddthetide · #5 10-25-2008, 08:33 AM

i'm a wait awhile fan and she was second best today. no question. forever together ran a nice race, it was her day.

CSC · #6 10-25-2008, 09:30 AM

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i'm a wait awhile fan and she was second best today. no question. forever together ran a nice race, it was her day.

I'm sorry but Sealy Hill was second best yesterday, yes she had a great trip but she was second last heading into the stretch to only narrowly miss. She closed into slow fractions, I don't know what Jerry Bailey was watching but his analysis that there was a honest pace was an error in my mind. If anything Wait A While's stalking trip was more beneficial to Forever Together and Sealy Hill's runs. Though Wait A While is still a very nice horse, I don't think she is as dominant as she was in her 3 yr old season, It's not like Pletcher's are running a hole in the wind this yr.

the_fat_man · #7 10-25-2008, 09:49 AM

So we have a race where the winner, the 2nd horse, and the 4th horse were, respectively, 7th, 8th, and 9th, in a 10 horse field, with the 10th horse badly outrun, YET, the consensus is that the only horse that ran early and finished with them GOT A BETTER SETUP.

The winner got the best setup of the top 4, as she RAN LAST. In other words, AFTER WaW had made her wide bid on the turn, AFTER Visit, who was behind FT to the turn, made that sharp move INTO the fastest fractions, and AFTER SH, who was also behind the winner, made her run.

As for Sealy Hill, I used her last out in exactas with Callwood Dancer, as they both had ridiculous trips in the Canadian S. She wasn't a mystery, she just happened to make the 2nd to last run in a race that fell apart. In fact, if she had a clear run, like the winner, she's probably a lot closer.