Evening Attire away in his usual lingering fashion in the Brooklyn (Sarah K. Andrew)
I take my sweet time out of the gate (I’m still handicapping)!
I’ll post my picks tomorrow before I head out.
Posted by dana on Jun 06 2008
Filed Under: Geldings, 2008, I'm Procrastinating, Sarah K. Andrew, Evening Attire, Belmont, Triple Crown, Handicapping, Racing
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Patrick had the pleasure of watching the Battaglia as it happened but the replay is up now up KentuckyDerby.com so get thyself over there to watch it!
That was a seriously impressive move. It’s not YouTube yet, but her performance in the Caressingh at Churchill as a 2yo on the turf was startlingly similar (official race replay from Churchill, no embedding).
On another note, yesterday was a day for longshots. Besides Absolute Cindy ($41.60) there was Malibu Moonshine ($31.40) in the Stymie, Ever a Friend ($20.60) in the Kilroe Mile and Heatseeker ($16) in the Big Cap. While my hunch bet of Great Hunter didn’t work out, I did manage to cash my first ticket of the year with Malibu Moonshine!
I just happen to turn on the OTB channel about 15 minutes before the Stymie. I was eating lunch and watch the parade and the both Malibu Moonshine and Temporary Saint looked great in the paddock and parade (wish I had boxed them!). I like to practice my visual handicapping when I’m not able to handicap proper and this just happen to be one of those times when I synched-up doing well with actually placing a bet. Needless to say, I was jumping up down like a crazy person in front of my TV.
On another note, I love the way Evening Attire looks when he runs. He looks a bit like a cartoon character with neck stuck so far out and kind of low. It’s very endearing.
Posted by dana on Mar 02 2008
Filed Under: Evening Attire, 2008, Hunch Bet, OTB, Great Hunter, Derby Trail, Handicapping, Racing
(1 votes, average: 5 out of 5) Loading ...Although he’s Kentucky bred, you’d think Evening Attire was a Native New Yorker the way New York crowds love him.
Teresa at Brooklyn Backstretch has 2 posts about her day at the Big A to watch Evening Attire… one specifically about Evening Attire while the other is a more about The Big A experience in general (and a great read!).
Greg at Power Cap also has a nice write up about his trip to see the old man. At the end of his post he links to an excellent Evening Attire Fan Site that that I’ve included in my new link category, Fan Sites.
I thought Evening Attire looked great and ran game second. As Teresa points out, it really wasn’t enough distance for him. His next outing will be at 1 1/8 mile, so look out you rotten kids!
Posted by dana on Jan 20 2008
Filed Under: 2008, Geldings, Aqueduct, Evening Attire, Fans
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...I just noticed something about the race replay graphic on the OTB channel… it looks like Funny Cide and Evening Attire!
For those of you who don’t live in NYC and/or don’t ever get a chance to see the signal from NYRA tracks, there’s a little transition graphic used for race replays that has a 3ish second close up clip of two horses. I guess since I was just looking at pics of Evening Attire his mask jumped out at me and then I noticed that the other jock looked to be wearing the Sackatoga Stables silks.
I believe the clip is from the 2004 Excelsior Breeders Cup Handicap at Aqueduct. The placement of the two is right on and Funny Cide was number 3… the only other distinguishing thing in the clip is that the horse with rider wearing the Sakatoga-ish silks is number 3. Of course it would make sense that they pick a clip of a high profile race from Aqueduct as well. I’ll have to see if I can figure out the Belmont & Saratoga replay clips when the time comes.
This up tick in posting brought to you by none other than procrastination!
Posted by dana on Jan 19 2008
Filed Under: YouTube, Aqueduct, Geldings, Evening Attire, NYRA, Race Replay, Funny Cide, OTB, Racing
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Evening Attire and Edgar Prado enter the track at Belmont with onlookers in Evening Attire (Holly Van Voast)
Best of luck to Evening Attire tomorrow!
Here’s his last out, schoolin’ youngsters in the Queens County Handicap, what you don’t see in this replay is that Evening Attire was running around like a nut in the parade. Every shot of every horse had Evening Attire streaking by in the background.
Go get ‘em old man!
Posted by dana on Jan 18 2008
Filed Under: YouTube, Aqueduct, Geldings, 2008, Evening Attire, Edgar Prado, Fans, Race Replay, Tom Durkin, Racing
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