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To: gate2wire; supremedoctrine

I lost. But I Want Revenge ran an absolutely amazing race. You have to see this race from the start, not just the stretch run that the NBC schmucks chose to show.

ML/NJ

17 posted on 04/04/2009 2:44:39 PM PDT by ml/nj

18 posted on 04/04/2009 3:08:16 PM PDT by ETL (ALL the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)

Here’s a link to a replay of the Wood Memorial:
http://www.ntra.com/video.aspx?id=38623

19 posted on 04/04/2009 4:02:22 PM PDT by ETL (ALL the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)

To: ml/nj; gate2wire

Sorry you lost. A IWR Imp Council exacta would’ve paid little more than what the Santa Anita Derby paid, which was
a whopping $4.60. Payoffs don’t get much worse than that.
Yup, he did run an amazing race, and I was surprised to see him break so badly, and figured I had the race won with West Side Bernie, and maybe IWR 2nd or 3rd. I’ve been watching the amazing Talamo for some months and he’s a phenom reminiscent of Steve Cauthen, I think, but it seems before they got to him he went into some kind of slump, and still no one knows his name outside of us horseracing aficionados. Or maybe it’s just that it’s not the 70s anymore, and the whole sport is still in a “There will NEVER be another Triple Crown WInner” slump.
Anyway, I wasn’t surprised to see ONE of the faves get burned up in a “speed duel” (even at that slow pace) and finish out of the money. West Side Bernie looked like he could win it at about the 1/8th pole, but IWR was coming strong and running the exact OPPOSITE race he ran in the Gotham. As I predicted, one of the longies finished 3rd, and the triple (no super) still only paid , what , $77.?

20 posted on 04/04/2009 4:10:44 PM PDT by supremedoctrine ("Time is the school in which we learn that time is the fire in which we burn"--Delmore Schwartz)

The way he got through traffic was even more amazing than the way he recovered from the poor start, I thought.

21 posted on 04/04/2009 4:16:09 PM PDT by Moonman62 (The issue of whether cheap labor makes America great should have been settled by the Civil War.)

To: ml/nj; supremedoctrine; ETL

Wow, where to start?

"...not just the stretch run that the NBC schmucks chose to show."
That was pathetic. NBC won't let TVG show the race, yet they only show the last 200 yds. Thanks to ETL, I just watched the whole race. IWR is for real. Very disappointed in IC.
To Keeneland. Why in the world was Stardom Bound so far back? ML, why is this filly under Dutrow now? Take the filly from Frankel? That makes a lot of sense.
Strange race at SA. Once again, Pioneer forces the pace. Still kind of slow.
I don't know. I'm kind of shaking my head right now. Strange day.

23 posted on 04/04/2009 4:37:53 PM PDT by gate2wire

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