4/3 (AQU): Carter (G1), Wood (G2), Gazelle, Excelsior, Bay Shore (G3's)
 

6-1 would be cool on Brooklyn Strong. He looks like a wicked strong contendah.

This could be a really good betting race as I'm not really seeing Prevalence or Risk Taking as strong co-favorites.

I went back and watched the Gotham and really like what Crowded Trade did in that race. Not sure what to make of Irad getting the mount on Risk Taking and Cancel aboard Crowded Trade - but it's worth noting that Cancel has been hot lately and just won the riding title.

Obviously not an exact science but you’d have to think Irad and his agent had first call on who they wanted to ride, for whatever that is worth.

That’s my initial thought but don’t really know enough to be confident about any of it. It may just be a distraction.

Since when do the employees tell the employers whom they are riding ? The trainers tell the jocks what to do and who to ride, and if they don’t like it, they can lump it.

Shockingly, you missed my point. Being a loser gambler for 40 years, you’d think you’d have a little bit of a clue, but with every post you make, you make it clear just how little you know.

If Chad Brown has two horses in a race and Irad is on one of them and Cancel is on the other there is a reason.

The reason being that Chad Brown wants one of them on one hoss and one of them on the other.

You’re trying too hard you big vagina

Man its like being back in middle school on this site.

There is an ignore function.

That's what makes it so much fun.. God. Just think back to the gleeful DT salad days, when the internet was young and carefree...

In fact, with the 15th anniversary of the site coming up May 26th, here's the first thread ever featuring countless characters that have come and gone or come and stayed or come and gone and returned.. or sadly, come and departed forever.

Welcome to DerbyTrail.com's Forum
http://www.derbytrail.com/forums/showthread.php?t=4

Dixie, Oracle, Bold Brooklynite, KYRIM!

Quite a walk down memory lane

always wanted to name a New Around Here to pay homage to Charlie

I like Prevalence to win here.

Quite a card so far :rolleyes:

Irad and his connections vs that colony...not fair.

Search results will be tough to beat in the Oaks

Nobody out of this race is a Derby threat...again.

Could this have possibly been the worst major prep in the history of racing?

Still a long way to go to beat out the 2011 Santa Anita Derby or the 2016 Wood Memorial.

Plus the 2021 Santa Anita Derby still to be run...

Outwork would have won by 7 lengths against this field.

I realize that he was bred by your beloved Phipps (like today's runner-up Dynamic One), but you were aware that Trojan Nation was an 0-for-5 maiden when he got beat a dirty head by Outwork in that Wood, right?

A few months later, he was able to break his maiden (on the turf), adding a maiden special weight to the fine list of accomplishments (2 first condition allowance races and a Grade 3 stakes) registered by the other horses in the 2016 Wood the rest of the year...

My buddy Michael loved Dynamic one yesterday what a horrid beat, he ran a good race in the context of a slow G1.

Worse than the Jeff Ruby?

I have never and will never consider the Jeff Ruby as a major prep.

His West Coast inferiority complex makes him hyper-sensitive to things that happen in the racing capital of the US

Favorite football team-Dallas
Favorite basketball team-Boston
Favorite baseball team-NY Yankees
Favorite college basketball-Duke
Favorite college football-Miami
Favorite racetrack-Saratoga
Favorite horse ever-Java Gold
Favorite Cities-New York and Dallas

Yep, a clear West Coast thing.

How does someone like the Cowboys, Celtics, Yankees and Duke?

The term “frontrunner” comes to mind

Easy. First basketball game my dad ever took me to see was Boston and Dallas. Boston won, they had Larry Bird, and it was a no brainer.

Growing up in the late 70's and early 80's, everything about Dallas was full of glamour. The TV show, the Cowboys, their cheerleaders.

Since my name is Reggie and the Yankees were winning World Series titles at the time I started watching baseball, I was a Reggie Jackson fan.

Duke because I went to high school in South Carolina and our team was pretty damn good (#7 in the country my junior year). We'd go up to Durham on weekends and play and could always get in games cause our center was first team all-American and was highly recruited. While the UNC and NC St guys were usually assholes to us, the Duke guys never were. We spent a lot of time playing with those guys that went on to the championship game in 1986 and were the foundation of what Duke is today. Johnny Dawkins is still today one of my five favorite players.

You’re not exactly refuting Andy here.

You really have to appreciate his honesty!

At least he’s not a Nets fan

I’ve been a Nets fan since they had Bernard King in 1978. Am I allowed to still be a fan?

I’ve been a knicks fan longer so I can hate the nets right. Bernard was my favorite though

What’s your point?

If you say your favorite college football team is Notre Dame I quit