No way. Grade 1s are Grade 1s for a reason. Hope for good weather.

Is anyone a little worried that Rachel might not be going in the Beldame? They haven't confirmed that she is and a four furlong bullet today feels a little close to the race considering the way they've been babying here. Maybe I'm crazy.

I just had one of those "Hey Kent maybe you could keep riding cause here comes Ice B... oh too late" moments.

I'm looking forward to the two year old turf races.

I wish Kingie were still around. This just reminded me of something.

We had this conversation / debate / fight (in a nice way) many many times.

I called it The Colonial Colony fight.

I think he called it the "a G1 horse isn't the same as a G1 winner" debate.

Good times.

It's a Dead Game laddy, all the value along with field size died when Saratoga ended. Churchill Fall Meet is the next opportunity for value on your betting dollar

Think about how nice a race the Beldame would be if the Cotillion wasn't the same day.

I don't think either the place or show horses in the Secretariat are all that "shitty."

They're not and Workin for Hops came back to run a nice race on Saturday losing to a horse that one of the "shitty" horses Paddy beat had previously beaten.

Having a conversation about whether Paddy O' Prado is a good horse and whether he's a Breeders' Cup Turf horse are somewhat mutually exclusive. He might be the best American turf horse heading into the BC and might get completely decimated given the relative lack of quality in this country in that division.

NT

It is of my opinion that Paddy O'Prado is the 3 year old HOY.

Decimated means " to reduce by 10%. "

Would obliterated capture it better?

Maybe his Beyer might be decimated.

If you pretended to not know what 'crossed the rubicon' meant - how can you be such a stickler with decimated.

Decimated sounds violent. It's a good sounding word in my book.

For what it's worth, the obsolete definition of decimated is to reduce by 10%. The first result when you look is: to destroy a great number or proportion of.

NT

That's fine.

It was an old school military tactic. I liked to read about Julius Caesar when I was a boy. I loved the way 'Art of War' was written. Huge fan of Hannibal and Atilla the Hun. Loved the story of the 300 Spartans at Thermopylae before Hollywood gay'd it up with that horrid movie. Romance of the Three Kingdoms was my favorite video game series.

I can imagine no place in history that would have been more fun to be than in winning gear right after one of those ancient wars - all set to rape and pillage. I can imagine no place more miserable in history than to be fighting on either side before or during the war.

Something tells me that if I was around in those days, I'd figure out a super sneaky way to jump in with the winning side right as they cross the wire.

What in the h*ll is wrong with you?!? :zz:

Just because such behavior isn't acceptable by society anymore doesn't mean it wouldn't have been fun.

When in Rome...