I made a very token smattering of super bets yesterday,
added one today, watched two of the races at OTB in Nanuet, then went back home to watch the last two.
I didn’t believe Zenyatta was a shoo-in, by any means, but I thought she might find a way to do it. I’m disappointed that she and Mike Smith didn’t. It’s her trademark to hang back and close, as everyone knows, but when I saw the first
half of the race and HOW FAR back she was at her farthest , I turned to my wife and said “uh, oh!”. I seem to remember last years BC Classic her being about 13 lengths back at the most, this time it seemed much longer, especially from the skycam. I was surprised again she made up as much ground as she did, but most of the DRF handicappers picked Blame over her. Never saw Blame run, so I had no visceral feeling about him, which I need IN ADDITION to the past performances. I expected by sentimental favorite Musket Man to do better but he finished 7th out of 12th.
The thing that galled me almost as much as Z’s losing was that idiot commentator HAVING to talk to Mike SMith via
headphone, SO CLOSE to that start, approaching the gate, and THEN as if that weren’t bad enough, jumping on him again
a bare few minutes AFTER the race to question him about what happened. Can’t these A-holes LEAVE THE JOCKEYS ALONE and show them SOME RESPECT??
Getting to seem as tho all the ESPN announcers are jackasses.
The questions were beyond stupid and that jerk with the mutton hat..........ugh.