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![]() Birdstone broke his maiden at the Spa, and I think it was in the mud.
What about the Travers? Fast track? Eric |
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![]() Let's remember who said here that Birdstone didn't like the mud.
However, the confusion probably stems from the Lane's End, or whatever it was called that year, at Turfway, where they sealed the track shortly before the race.....and Birdstone ran poorly. I believe Nick was publically unhappy about them sealing the track before a big race.
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maybe zito was just pissed that they sealed it that day birdstone ran up the track. i believe that was the case...
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anyone looking to explain the finish today is up against it. this race is an aberration. no one, in a million years, would have ever come up with mine that bird as the winner today. no way, no how. it happens sometimes that a horse runs well for whatever reason. off track could explain the results of todays race. that alone may not be the reason-hell, there may be no reason. just like there's no reason a 100-1 shot won the travers, or a horse like seek gold or colonial colony wins a gr 1. or black seventeen winning for that matter... folks take an odd result as gospel and bet a horse like mad the next time out. and the next...and so on. some times you have an inexplicable result, today being one of those times. several belmonts in recent memory are others.
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Obviously QR And IWR are nice horses so besides them who makes this crop so much stronger than last years crop if the remaining runners in today's race are mediocre? |
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but today's derby was a lackluster event compared to what we were facing just a week or two ago.
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Don't horses throw shoes all the time?
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IWR and QR ran extremely fast races without smoke and mirorrs. Genuine great performances. FF had one perfect trip after another. I liked Pioneer of the Nile better than him and picked him above FF. And even though FF's form is overrated he ran way too bad to be believed today. Something happened. Dunkirk figured to get his education today - and I certainly don't believe he's as much horse as Quaility Road right now. He ran too bad to be true and will bounce back as well. |
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One lost two shoes the other just one. |
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![]() I am still puzzled why no one had posted there
were only two good horses this year. And since they both would not be running, the Derby would be awful. Weather... A huge silly afterthought. The winner would have gotten em on any surface since he won so easily. We will of course see this two weeks from now. |
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Would have thrown in the 2 prep rule but that has long been debunked. |