Dumdolphin up to their old tricks again

[blackthroatedwind]

Originally Posted by philcski

Was just looking at the Holy Bull chart from '09 because there's a horse in for $5k on Friday at MTH that went off favored, and the winner was in for $30 last week. What an incredibly key negative race.

SARATOGA SINNER: Injured, off, lost 8 races before winning a $30k N3L at CD last week
BEAR'S ROCKET: Has been dreadful in 5 losses including a 50 length drubbing in the A Little Warm race yesterday
WEST SIDE BERNIE: Ran ok in the Wood Memorial but otherwise has been clobbered
BEETHOVEN: 3rd in the FoY, has not run since
STATELY CHARACTER: has run 14 times since without hitting the board, with typical comments being "No Factor" "Outrun" "Trailed Throughout"
BRUCE N AUTUMN: Switched to turf thereafter, didn't matter; has lost 6 in a row without hitting the board
DANGER TO SOCIETY: Went off favored, has run 5 times since and has not hit the board despite being 7/5 or lower 3 times; most recently was in a $15k N3L at Philly, goes for $5k on Friday at MTH
ROCKLAND: Finished 2nd for $25k N2L a couple weeks ago at DEL as the favorite, was crushed in his other 5 starts
EL CRESPO: Switched to turf thereafter, won Palm Beach next out; been serviceable but erratic in 12 starts since with no wins
IDOL MAKER: Ran once since in an allowance at BEL, finished last at 5-1

Amazing.

Not surprising the first couple didn't run back considering the way the track was playing that day but it's pretty amazing that basically everyone fell off the face of the earth after that race.

El Crespo has to be the idol of all the others. Relatively speaking he's a champ.

[philcski]

Originally Posted by blackthroatedwind

Amazing.

Not surprising the first couple didn't run back considering the way the track was playing that day but it's pretty amazing that basically everyone fell off the face of the earth after that race.

El Crespo has to be the idol of all the others. Relatively speaking he's a champ.

Agreed on the first two getting the best of it- myself and a few others from DT were there that day and it was A++ speed favoring if I've ever seen a speed favoring track. A bunch of us bet Finallymadeit in the Donn because of that and he certainly gave us a thrill at 30-1.

That said, the performance of the day was in the race in between the two stakes. Warrior's Reward in his career debut came from WAY off a moderate pace at 30-1. It was somewhat of a collapsing race, but we all know what he's capable of now.