7/4 (LRC): Great Lady M (G2), Los Al Derby (G3)

[King Glorious]

Uncle Chuck is an exciting horse. Should win this one and become the second choice for the Travers.

[Dahoss]

Originally Posted by King Glorious

Uncle Chuck is an exciting horse. Should win this one and become the second choice for the Travers.

Kind of amusing your first pre race opinion in what has to be years if ever is on a 2/5 in a 4 horse field.

[blackthroatedwind]

Originally Posted by Dahoss

Kind of amusing your first pre race opinion in what has to be years if ever is on a 2/5 in a 4 horse field.

There comes a time when each of us has to take a stand.

[knickslions2]

Originally Posted by blackthroatedwind

There comes a time when each of us has to take a stand.

Lol that made me laugh

[King Glorious]

Originally Posted by blackthroatedwind

There comes a time when each of us has to take a stand.

That was funny. I like you today. You saw Fit to Fight and said how good it was to see the famed silks of Rokeby Stables and Mack Miller. I know that made you think of his greatest horse, Java Gold. I know that made you think of me.

[blackthroatedwind]

Originally Posted by King Glorious

That was funny. I like you today. You saw Fit to Fight and said how good it was to see the famed silks of Rokeby Stables and Mack Miller. I know that made you think of his greatest horse, Java Gold. I know that made you think of me.

Java Gold never occurred to me. Honestly. Sea Hero did.

[King Glorious]

Originally Posted by blackthroatedwind

Java Gold never occurred to me. Honestly. Sea Hero did.

Understandable since he was a Derby winner. Miller had said Java Gold was his best horse but of course, that was before Sea Hero came along. I don't think that changed his thinking though.

[RolloTomasi]

Originally Posted by King Glorious

Understandable since he was a Derby winner. Miller had said Java Gold was his best horse but of course, that was before Sea Hero came along. I don't think that changed his thinking though.

Red Ransom was the one that got him (and/or Paul Mellon) to actually keep a horse in full training over the winter with an eye towards the Kentucky Derby rather than letting down in Aiken.

Of course, that didn't go very well and to read Andy Beyer's account of the affair one might think that Miller intentionally eighty-sixed that horse's Triple Crown aspirations (left the horse with an assistant, entered the horse in February against older horses, fired the jockey for working "too fast", then said he hadn't train the horse enough when it got beat at 2-5 a couple of weeks later).

He abandoned Sea Hero in the winter, too, leaving him with Scotty Schulhofer and tried to keep the horse on the grass after a series of drubbings but was overruled by the owner. Perhaps only the inane program utilized by the Animal Kingdom people was more "innovative" in producing a Derby victory...

[King Glorious]

Originally Posted by Dahoss

Kind of amusing your first pre race opinion in what has to be years if ever is on a 2/5 in a 4 horse field.

I believe it's called clockwork.

[Dahoss]

Originally Posted by King Glorious

I believe it's called clockwork.

Is Phil going to appear soon and pretend he’s some kind of tough guy? That would make this day complete.