5/19 (PIM): 137th Preakness S. (G1), 6 Undercard Stakes

[-BT-]

Originally Posted by slotdirt

Should be nice weather this weekend, so hopefully scratches are minimized. Otherwise, this could become a relatively sorry card.

preakness undercard, home to N1X races that would regularly be carded as 15K claimers @ N2L on tuesdays

-bt-

[HaloWishingwell]

Bodemeister to play the part of Hard Spun. Went The Day Well stars as Street Sense. I'll Have Another as Curlin. Got my Belmont seats hopefully for a historic day.

[slotdirt]

I still don't get the Went the Day Well love, but what do I know?

[pmayjr]

Originally Posted by HaloWishingwell

Bodemeister to play the part of Hard Spun. Went The Day Well stars as Street Sense. I'll Have Another as Curlin. Got my Belmont seats hopefully for a historic day.

There's just one problem- I think the only way any of them go to the Belmont is if I'll Have Another wins Saturday. I think regardless of result Bode and Creative Cause skip the Belmont. Do you guys think O'neill has any motivation to run I'll Have Another if he doesn't win?

[Indian Charlie]

Originally Posted by pmayjr

There's just one problem- I think the only way any of them go to the Belmont is if I'll Have Another wins Saturday. I think regardless of result Bode and Creative Cause skip the Belmont. Do you guys think O'neill has any motivation to run I'll Have Another if he doesn't win?

Yeah, it would be called locking up the 3yo Eclipse by winning the SA Derby, Ky Derby and Belmont.

[slotdirt]

Just noticed this on my first real glance through the card. Odd placement to be sure, no?

9th (3:53) James W. Murphy S.

1 Mile (Turf) | Open | 3 Year Olds Stakes | Purse: $100,000

1 Easy Crossing Dominguez R A 116 L
2 Skyring Rosario J 116 L
3 Lemon Juice Franklin M 116 LA
4 Going to Market Karamanos H A 116 LA
5 Shkspeare Shaliyah Solis A 122 LA
6 Mr. Handsome Rodriguez E D 116 L
7 Done Talking Russell S 122 LA
8 Two Months Rent Pimentel J 116 LA
9 Hammers Terror Nakatani C S 116 LA
10 Gold Megillah Velazquez J R 116 LA
11 Adirondack King Castellano J J 116 LA
12 Achilles Lezcano J 116

[Dahoss]

Originally Posted by slotdirt

Just noticed this on my first real glance through the card. Odd placement to be sure, no?

9th (3:53) James W. Murphy S.

1 Mile (Turf) | Open | 3 Year Olds Stakes | Purse: $100,000

1 Easy Crossing Dominguez R A 116 L
2 Skyring Rosario J 116 L
3 Lemon Juice Franklin M 116 LA
4 Going to Market Karamanos H A 116 LA
5 Shkspeare Shaliyah Solis A 122 LA
6 Mr. Handsome Rodriguez E D 116 L
7 Done Talking Russell S 122 LA
8 Two Months Rent Pimentel J 116 LA
9 Hammers Terror Nakatani C S 116 LA
10 Gold Megillah Velazquez J R 116 LA
11 Adirondack King Castellano J J 116 LA
12 Achilles Lezcano J 116

I scratched my head when I saw that. If you're wheeling back in two weeks, why not try the Preakness?

[tywizard]

Smith said he'd try the grass after derby.

[Bigsmc]

Originally Posted by -BT-

preakness undercard, home to N1X races that would regularly be carded as 15K claimers @ N2L on tuesdays

-bt-

[-BT-]

Originally Posted by Bigsmc

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-bt-

[MaTH716]

Damn, I would have went to Pimlico if I knew that BT was the Kegasus.

[Calzone Lord]

The first four legs of this Pick 5 are absolutely brutal.

Not only can I not find anything even close to a single in any of them ... I'm also having a lot of trouble eliminating horses.

It's very annoying to me. Like one potential landmine after another.

Sometimes a card can be "too good" when the main attraction is a multi-win bet like the pick 5.

[jms62]

Originally Posted by Calzone Lord

The first four legs of this Pick 5 are absolutely brutal.

Not only can I not find anything even close to a single in any of them ... I'm also having a lot of trouble eliminating horses.

It's very annoying to me. Like one potential landmine after another.

Sometimes a card can be "too good" when the main attraction is a multi-win bet like the pick 5.

It Preakness day dude those first 4 legs will probably be won by 3 favorites.

[Calzone Lord]

It's a very slow track based on what we saw in the first dirt race today.

Solid starter alw males -- the 4 length winner had run figures of 77-88-82-76-80-78 in his last six starts.

They went 25 for the first quarter and the 8.5f race broke 1:46 for the final time.

Unless some work is done on the track -- the fractions and especially the final time will be very slow this year no matter what.

[GPK]

Originally Posted by Bigsmc

Hands down, this is Matts best work evah.

[jms62]

I like Pretension to give value to the exotics and based upon what I've seen here I probably am the only one in the world to think that.

[Calzone Lord]

Originally Posted by jms62

I like Pretension to give value to the exotics and based upon what I've seen here I probably am the only one in the world to think that.

I think he's probably the 3rd best New York bred in the race.

[NTamm1215]

Originally Posted by Calzone Lord

I think he's probably the 3rd best New York bred in the race.

That's a safe bet.

[3kings]

I don't want to sound like Alan but shouldn't they have the scratches uo an hour before post time?

[3kings]

Originally Posted by Bigsmc

Matt, can we get the Mr. Thomas shirt on this?