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11-29-2007, 11:02 AM
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Highs...
Every race Darjina won, seeing Red Clubs win a G1, Apache Cat beating Haradasun, Vodka winning the Derby and showing the boys up, Vengeance of Rain in Dubai, finding Ace. Lows..... George Washington, and April 7th..... watching my favorite horse Hendrix who I still miss. 
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11-29-2007, 11:09 AM
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As far as racing goes:
Highs: Rags to Riches Belmont, Street Sense's Derby, Perry Ouzts winning his first Cradle Stakes. Lows: Lethal Grande, the best horse in Oregon racing history, having to be euthanized after a career that saw him win 28 times. Personally in racing Lows: Calling the wrong horse last in a 100k dollar race and realizing when i got back to the front of the field into the stretch she was first, walking around Cincinnati wondering if i should switch jobs. Highs: 2 days later nailing the call of our 200k race and once again feeling i can do this job.
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11-29-2007, 02:21 PM
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As a bettor,
High point: Ellis Park offers a 4% takeout Pick-4 for the duration of it's summer meet. Horseplayers who are used to battling against 15-25% takeout have a chance to play against 1/4th the vig or less. Low point: Horseplayers (mostly) choose to bet into 20-25% takeout pools at other tracks rather than play at Ellis, leaving Ellis and other tracks little incentive to try lowering takeout. As a fan, High point: Seeing Lava Man live at Hollywood Park winning the Gold Cup with an ultra-game run through the stretch. Low point: The Barbaro roller-coaster finale. --Dunbar
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Curlin and Hard Spun finish 1,2 in the 2007 BC Classic, demonstrating how competing in all three Triple Crown races ruins a horse for the rest of the year...see avatar photo from REUTERS/Lucas Jackson
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11-29-2007, 02:31 PM
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Highs include Curlin's backing me up for claiming in March that by year's end, he'd be the best horse in the country; seeing the top 3yo's slug it out through the end of the main racing season; the return of Pat Valenzuela; the exciting prospect of watching War Pass become a hall of famer; the brilliance of Magnificience; the scintillating stretch running of Crossing the Line; Patrick Biancone being suspended (I'll never forgive him for running Lion Heart in the Preakness); people saying Baffert couldn't train anymore cause he couldn't win on that junk in Cali and then him going to NY and tearing it up and winning two BC races to further prove that it's the tracks that suck out here.
Lows include the entire older male division; the entire 2yo male and female divisions, save for War Pass and Indian Blessing; all the people saying that this average group of 3yo's were great (they weren't, they only looked that way because the older males were horrible); Crossing the Line, Rags to Riches, Notional and Magnificience being injured; the mass introduction of synthetic racing, especially that junk they race on at Del Mar.
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The real horses of the year (1986-2020) Manila, Java Gold, Alysheba, Sunday Silence, Go for Wand, In Excess, Paseana, Kotashaan, Holy Bull, Cigar, Alphabet Soup, Formal Gold, Skip Away, Artax, Tiznow, Point Given, Azeri, Candy Ride, Smarty Jones, Ghostzapper, Invasor, Curlin, Zenyatta, Zenyatta, Goldikova, Havre de Grace, Wise Dan, Wise Dan, California Chrome, American Pharoah, Arrogate, Gun Runner, Accelerate, Maximum Security, Gamine
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