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Old 07-12-2009, 10:11 AM
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Back at the scene of his greatest (and only triumph) in the last 13 months, Da' Tara will be re-united with Alan Garcia in search of career victory #3 in an N2X at Belmont today (Race 9).

I apologize for being completely wrong when we conducted an informal poll of the worst Belmont Stakes winners in the last ten years. How anyone could vote for any horse but Da' Tara is incomprehensible.

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Old 07-12-2009, 10:24 AM
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Admit it, you ordered his hat from HorseHats.com...
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Old 07-12-2009, 10:27 AM
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Admit it, you ordered his hat from HorseHats.com...
Ironic, considering I do know someone who said prior to his Jim Dandy effort, "I think Da' Tara could end up being a good horse." Are you still of that persuasion?

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Old 07-12-2009, 10:32 AM
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I laughed
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Old 07-12-2009, 10:34 AM
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Ironic, considering I do know someone who said prior to his Jim Dandy effort, "I think Da' Tara could end up being a good horse." Are you still of that persuasion?

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I think I said he might be able to win a race of some consequence down the road because the 3-year-old crop was so bad. I was definitely wrong (about the winning part).
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Old 07-12-2009, 10:34 AM
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Ironic, considering I do know someone who said prior to his Jim Dandy effort, "I think Da' Tara could end up being a good horse." Are you still of that persuasion?

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But he still beat Denis of Cork... speaking of hats...
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Old 07-12-2009, 10:50 AM
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This will be a very interesting race to watch - 7 entries witn 3-E8s, 1 E7, 2 E/P6s and 1 S. The big question is how fast will they go and who'll be left standing when they get to the quarter pole? Normally you'd jump all over the lone F but what about the lone S? At 10/1 he's a must use on the Pk-3s along with whichever speed type(s) you like. With the make up of this field you'd have to think Tizway is an underlay at 9/5. I'm adding an E8 (Super Shape 5/1) and an E/P6 (Da' Tara). That ought to cover whatever the race shape turns out to be.
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Old 07-12-2009, 11:11 AM
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I think I said he might be able to win a race of some consequence down the road because the 3-year-old crop was so bad. I was definitely wrong (about the winning part).
Oh, I think it was more definitive than that and included something about how he was by Tiznow, who was a Super Derby winner.

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But he still beat Denis of Cork... speaking of hats...
Poor Denis had to run against the bias that day and had the weight of your money on him.

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Old 07-12-2009, 11:41 AM
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Oh, I think it was more definitive than that and included something about how he was by Tiznow, who was a Super Derby winner.
The way our track played on SD day last year, I really think Da' Tara would have been quite tough.
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Old 07-12-2009, 11:42 AM
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Speaking of Denis - he still hasn't posted a work for this year. I thought they were bringing him back? I liked that horse about as much as I liked Pioneerof Denial.
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Old 07-12-2009, 04:20 PM
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Back at the scene of his greatest (and only triumph) in the last 13 months, Da' Tara will be re-united with Alan Garcia in search of career victory #3 in an N2X at Belmont today (Race 9).

I apologize for being completely wrong when we conducted an informal poll of the worst Belmont Stakes winners in the last ten years. How anyone could vote for any horse but Da' Tara is incomprehensible.

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Curses! Folied again!
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Speaking of Horse Hats, anyone got an extra Bustin Stones hat? Would love one of those, and I know they gave them out at the Big A one time. Been checking on ebay ever since.
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Old 07-12-2009, 08:42 PM
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that horse is tired, how did that donkey win the belmont
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I apologize for being completely wrong when we conducted an informal poll of the worst Belmont Stakes winners in the last ten years. How anyone could vote for any horse but Da' Tara is incomprehensible.

NT
When the other options are Commendable, Sarava, and Jazil, I don't know that it's possible to be completely wrong with any of them. LOL at this race still being called "The Test of Champions." Please. from all the previous winners of this decade, they've won how many races post-Belmont? Three. Combined. Unless I'm missing something, there were Point Given's Haskell and Travers and Birdstone's Travers.
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Old 07-13-2009, 06:32 AM
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When the other options are Commendable, Sarava, and Jazil, I don't know that it's possible to be completely wrong with any of them. LOL at this race still being called "The Test of Champions." Please. from all the previous winners of this decade, they've won how many races post-Belmont? Three. Combined. Unless I'm missing something, there were Point Given's Haskell and Travers and Birdstone's Travers.
Given the depleted field in 2000, I would say it's a dead heat between Commendable and Da' Tara. It's too close to call...

Sarava actually beat a very good field.
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Old 07-13-2009, 10:52 AM
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Admit it, you ordered his hat from HorseHats.com...
With a few adjustments he can still salvage the hat if his girlfriend is named Tara.
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