Posts from September 2007
Welcome to the New Site!
To be honest I didn’t think it would take me so long to get this site up and running. Once I started fiddling with it I found more and more things I wanted to fiddle with… and believe me, there are still things to fiddle with.
I’ve ported about half of my old content over (manually, one post at a time!) and still have a couple of months worth of posts to bring over. These will show up as newly published pieces in the RSS feed when I add them.
One of the reasons it took so long, besides the fiddling, was that with each post I was creating the somewhat (read: borderline ridiculously) “extensive” category structure (marked as tags). One of the things on the fiddling list is to add collapse/expand capabilities to the parent categories. That ‘Horse’ catagory is already pretty outrageous so it would be good to be able have that load with the catagory rolled up but easily expanded.
If you see anything weird please let me know, by way of the handy About/Contact page… yes, you can now easily email me, not to mention comment!
Posted by dana on Sep 30 2007
Filed Under: Site Related, Wooo!
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What a Weekend!
Wow, that was one action packed weekend! Fabulous Strike’s fabulous front-running first G1 win, English Channel’s last minute daring push through a hole that he had to make big enough, Unbridled Belle’s unabashed upset and last but not least Curlin & Lawyer Ron’s stretch battle. And that was just today, on one track!
Todd Pletcher’s back and so am I! After unsuccessfully trying my hand at Pick 4’s and 6’s all last weekend, I hit the Hard Spun/Street Sense straight Exacta, the Unbridled Belle/Indian Vale/Ginger Punch Trifecta, the Curlin/Lawyer Ron/Political Force Trifecta and today’s late Pick 4! Finally, a comeback… something I’m sure Todd Pletcher thought today too with his 3 wins.
Dale Romans and Stanely Hough also had two wins apiece today. Ramon Dominguez scored three wins while Johnny V, Robby Albarado & Eibar Coa all had two wins. Last but not least, Smart Strike sired three of today’s winners: Fabulous Strike, English Channel & Curlin!
Two other sire notes on today’s Belmont card… Invasor’s sire, Candy Stripes is the dam’s sire of Tomorrow’s Nano, winner of the 11th. I had never noticed his sire noted anywhere else. The last place finisher of the 5th, a state bred $35000 claiming race was sired by Dubai Millennium. He only had one crop of offspring before he tragically died of grass sickness. I noticed that another one of his offspring, Noble Duty, ran in a low level claimer last weekend and didn’t do so well either. I’m interested to find out how the rest of his cropped has fared.
Since I don’t really wanna to end on such a bummer, I’ll be interested to read all the speculation about what this weekend’s performances might mean for BC performances. I agree with those who think Street Sense didn’t knock himself out to try catch Hard Spun (i.e., Calvin Borel didn’t beat the crap out him the way did in the Travers), not that I think he could have anyway. Since he couldn’t catch him it was a smarter move to save it for the Classic. As for Hard Spun, I wish they would run him in the Dirt Mile instead of the Classic, he won’t get such favorable circumstances in the Classic, and no matter how much I love him I don’t think he can win the Classic. I want to watch the Jockey Gold Cup again to see if Lawyer Ron was all out or saved a little. It’s exciting that it seems somewhat wide open but a bit of a bummer that it’s stacked so heavily towards 3 year olds. Maybe if 3 year olds couldn’t run in the Classic there would be more incentive for them to run as 4 year olds.
Posted by dana on Sep 30 2007
Filed Under: Indian Vale, Ginger Punch, Unbridled Belle, Fabulous Strike, John Velazquez, Come Back, English Channel, Exacta, BC Classic, Robby Albarado, Stanely Hough, Dale Romans, Trifecta, Ramon Dominguez, 2007, Hard Spun, Street Sense, Belmont, Let Horses Race, Breeding, Wooo!, Curlin, Lawyer Ron, Eibar Coa, Todd Pletcher, Calvin Borel, Breeders' Cup, Invasor, Racing
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Rick Violette gets his first win of the meet in the second at Belmont with a wire to wire romp by Globalization (I’m still alive in the early pick 4!). I was starting to wonder when he’d get a win. My note on Globalization was that he had a jock change + his last work was an endurance builder… I thought both were encouraging.
On a bias note, both wins so far were from the 5th post position and wire to wire.
Posted by dana on Sep 30 2007
Filed Under: Richard Violette, 2007, Biases, Racing
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I was just procrastinating handicapping the 6th - 11th at Belmont today when I noticed a few nice workouts.
Belgravia 5f @ 58.4 H (1/14) @ Santa Anita (wow!)
The Green Monkey 5f @ 1.00.8 B (1/43) @ Belmont
Ravel 4f @ 47.60 B (2/21) @ Keeneland
Ravel was previously training at Arlington, I wonder if this means an entry is imminent?
Back to handicapping…
Posted by dana on Sep 30 2007
Filed Under: Workouts, Belgravia, Ravel, 2007, The Green Monkey
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Hard Spun, period.
Posted by dana on Sep 29 2007
Filed Under: YouTube, 3yo, Street Sense, Hard Spun, Wooo!
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