Flying First Class
 

Doing what he should be doing!

Wins the Derby Trail by several.

Didn't see the race but what happened to Barkley Sound?

He broke down. :(

Does anyone know if they were able to save him?

The bad news for the colt is that his trainer probably viewed today's result as a reason to run the horse in the Preakness and Belmont.
He is that crazy.

actually, he did say they are preakness bound.

Of course he did. The Triple Crown makes this guy completely insane. Remember Going Wild? His decision to run that colt in the Preakness after he had already shown in both the Wood and the Derby that he wanted no part of going 9f or beyond was absolutely ridiculous.
If FFC runs poorly at Pimlico, will that stop Lukas from running him at 12f in the Belmont? I doubt it.
I don't know if it the owners or Lukas are making the call on sending him to Pimlico, but I wouldn't be at all surprised if it is DWL's call. Why he can't see that this horse is a one-turn horse.....I'll never know. EVERYONE else on the planet can see it, but he can't.

According to DRF, he had to be euthanized :( So sad!

God, that's devastating. I really liked that horse... what a shame. :( He was one of a few that has Crozier left in his line...

everyone knows lukas' record in the the tc. i would guess he has been here enough times to know what he can, or can't get out of a horse. it's a shame that he is spotlighted for his glaring disappointments, rather than for those times he won, or came close. funny that now it's the going wilds who are mentioned, not the charismatics.

I don't think that is entirely true...how many times have you heard someone say you can't ignore lukas in a Stakes race? He does take a gamble with his horses though.

After doing some research on Crozier, yes, it is definitely a shame.

No question that he had a ton of success in the 80s and 90s. Nobody could dispute that. But his decisions over the last five to seven years regarding who to push into these races or on to the Derby trail have been poor. I don't see how anybody could dispute that either.

It is sad. He had a nice meet down in Tampa this winter in which he had those three straight victories, including a stakes win.
It makes me feel bad for Joan Scott and Pinebloom Stable.

I loved Charismatic. :)

Danzig, I agree, you can't take away what he accomplished the last two decades, but now he kind of reminds me of an aging "A list" movie star trying to still play the romantic lead roles. DWL doesn't have the stock he once did (for whatever reason; I don't know any of that kind of stuff) but I feel like he's so eager to still be there in the TC races that recently he puts in horses that don't have a chance to win because it's hard to let go of when he was the top of the game. My take on it, anyway. Lord knows I'm no psychologist, for which the psychology profession should be grateful.

Not, of course, that I'm thinking of any specific aging movie stars, of course.

How's filming on "Indiana Jones 4" coming, I wonder? ;)

Charismatic! Beautiful horse!


And Indiana Jones is supposed to start filming in June, and rumor has it Sean Connery will be in it as well. He looks a lot younger and more fit than Harrison Ford :)

Hee hee hee. I knew Harrison had started trying too hard when appeared on the cover of People with that brand spanking new earring in his (at the time) 50-year-old ear.

I was bummed when Charismatic was moved to Japan. Hope he does well at stud there. It's been what, two years?

It must be that young chickie he's been hangin around with. You know, that skinny girl.... :)

Charismatic has been in Japan since 2002, according what I have read. Time for him to come home now.

If this race was a week ago, he would be Derby bound.

Well, not really because he has no graded stakes earnings.
If, however, the Derby Trial was graded, I am confident that DWL would run him back in the Derby a week later.

True...with the move he made in the Arkansas Derby, I thought for sure he'd hit the board... but then flatten out.
That with today's victory would have been enough...and he would be added speed to the race.