Christine Daae
 

Very sharp 3-year-old filly for Frenchie Cobra Venom today. Bet off the board today after a nondescript debut six months ago at HOL, went on to win by 8 or 9 in 1:21.67. One worth keeping an eye on.

I demand to know why this horse was 6-1 ML and we didn't get the RHT 10,000,000,000 star lock given her sire, the incomparable Giant's Causeway.

NT

She may be his best dirt horse yet.

I demand to know why Patrick Biancone is permitted, with the aid of the Gulfstream morning line maker, to put horses over like this.

This was a disgrace. Shameful. She was obviously live and everyone at the track knew it or she would not have been bet to 7-2.

But she looked wicked.

She opened up at 6-5 I believe. I don't know if you can automatically blame the M/L maker though. Who can say what he knew?

I think BWS is joking (?). At least I hope so. . .

http://www.derbytrail.com/forums/sho...Connie+Michael

NT

Forgot about that thread. Oh that BWS. Should've included some complaining about how many people there were in the winner's circle.

I will never forget that thread. It is easily in my top 5 favorite all-time horse racing threads on the internet.

But to clarify, yes, definitely joking.

Obligatory



What the hell, morning line maker!! That there horse was 10-1 and he went off 3-1. Good god cheatin basterds oughat throw em all in jails

Papa Clem

Speaking of Gulfstream...anyone find some light payoffs today?

Races 2-4 winners paid $28.40, $5.20, and $28.40

$2 pick 3 paid $647.60, but the $2 parlay was at $1,022.40?

Just speculating, but figure that the middle leg was little more than a 2-horse race, so doubt there was a HUGE deal of spreading in that leg, not killing lots of tickets. Or at least that's how it looked to me.

And I'd imagine you got much closer to the 6-1 morning line on Fire Chief in the pick-3 than the 13-1 win pool odds.

I figured as much, I just didn't bother looking at the ML odds for the races. I was just scanning results is all and it looked a little light.

Tell everyone who I told you I LOVEEEEEEEEEEEEEED IN THIS RACE LOL.

kev pick 3 and win pools are seperate there is no corelation between them

The mother of this horse was an absolute beast when she was on her game. I suppose few will remember her because she raced in the seeming racing dark ages that was the early 2000's... and was so fragile that she never raced long enough to accomplish anything.

She won the 2nd start of her career in alw race at Saratoga by 11 lengths with a triple digit Beyer going 1st time Asmussen.

I guess he's your friend again Nick.

Clearly he got off his dick to get on his good side again.

Did Papa Clem get adopted by GC?

beyer came back a 92. good looking filly

Love your name Gaining Ground. Now I get to think of those Battaglia calls that come up in my nightmares.

:tro:

Why the hate for Battaglia?

I almost never watch races from that track, but he doesn't seem that awful to me the few times I've heard him.

He's way past awful. He takes forever to identify horses and elongates words like "seconnnd" in addition to his "GAINING GROUND" BS. I have to mute the TV.

He makes me want to slit my wrists.

Weird.

The only use I have for callers is to figure out where the horses I'm following in the race are placed, early in the race. From there I can, for the most part, follow what I need visually.

I usually end up not even noticing the call as anything more than a buzz in my ear.

is this horse named from phantom of the opera character?? and no, i am not gay!

From the TDN:

You couldn't see it as she romped away from the
field, but there is a good reason why Christine Daae
was named for the young woman who became the
obsession of the Phantom of the Opera.
Trainer Patrick Biancone explained.
Let me tell you why, Biancone said. She is a chestnut,
OK? But on the left side of her face, she has a big
white mark, like a mask. I called my owners and I said,
Listen, she has a mask, like the Phantom. We cannot
call her Phantom, because that's not right for a filly, but
Christine Daae is a beautiful girl from the Phantom of
the Opera, so we should try that.

thanks for the info. i knew i heard that name before, in my past..

since when is it gay to like musicals?

Really?

Yeah, I guess uneducated white trashy types find musicals to be 'gay'.

And some are pretty lame, I guess.

But how is Les Miserables or even Evita 'gay'? They are pretty good political commentaries, if anything.

You and BTW should make a ballet date.

You can have that book learnin' and still think musicals are fantastically gay...which they are.

I really wish I knew which big race at Turfway last year it was, maybe the Lane's End?, where he just kept repeating "GAINING GROUND!" because he couldn't figure out which horse was coming on the outside. It was an all-time Battaglia classic.

You should watch the 7 horse in Race 7 on Friday :D

It's okay, IC. You can like musicals if you want. Just not "Phantom," because it sucks.