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Posted on 06/06/2015 1:32:17 PM PDT by ETL
Thanks for the great posts!
I think AP is going to do it. There has been close to zero press or hype.
“While not a horse racing fan I do hope the horse can do it.”
You are like right out of Guys & Dolls!
Pardon my ignorance, not a racing fan. But, we see thousands of people gather at the race track, all for a 2 minute race. Are there a lot of activities going on besides the race? Do people get there, place a bet, watch the race then leave? Are they there for less than an hour including time spent parking, placing a bet, watching the race?
I’m not familiar with all of this. I just don’t get the timing. A baseball or football game lasts three hours or more. A horse race takes 2 minutes.
No kidding;
Last year that dolt actually asked the winning owner, in the winners circle interview, during his big day, “ So Mr. Evans, what did you think of California Chrome?”
That’s like right out of Happy Gilmore.
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I’m rooting for a triple crown winner! I had hoped California Chrome would get it because I liked his story, but hopefully this year we will have one.
The same jockey who is riding the big favorite here rode Chrome in last year’s failed attempt at a Triple Crown. Calf Chrome won the Derby and Preakness as well.
Saw this on Drudge .... makes some good points but flounders around a bit in the ‘telling’ of it all:
Science Says American Pharoah Won’t Win the Triple Crown
http://www.wired.com/2015/06/science-says-american-pharoah-wont-win-triple-crown/
AP can win it if everything goes his way .... he’s feeling really good, he has a good post position, breaks well, the jockey can keep him in a good spot for the way he runs, etc. etc. There are a lot of factors that go into horse racing besides hard, cold ‘science’. This should be interesting today.
I got a horse right here................
Thanks for the link. Brought a few tears, I loved that horse!
Oh, yeah....Johnny Weir(d).
*Foghorn Leghorn*”Dat boy...I say, day boy is ‘bout as sharp as a bowling ball.”*/Foghorn Leghorn*
Yes, it would be great. I worked at Belmont as a teen during the mid seventies when there were THREE Triple Crown winners! Secretariat (1973), Seattle Slew (1977), and Affirmed (1978). Unfortunately, I was there from '74 to '76, so I missed all 3 of them while there. I did, however, get to meet/see up close a bunch of superstar horses, jockeys and trainers, and other big names in racing. I even got to meet the groom of Secretariat, a black guy from the south nicknamed "Shorty", aka Eddie Sweat.
Some of the horse names amuse me. If I had race horses, I’d name them something like “Hot Glue” or “Other Red Meat”.
As a kid, I rode a rental horse a couple times that was supposedly a former race horse. Wouldn’t tolerate a metal bit, always tried to run under low branches with inexperienced riders, that sort of thing. Skinny. But when you got into the open and rode up on her neck (I was small), that girl would fly like the wind without any urging at all. Neck reign her or just think and she would go. Good old Rosie.
I doubt he comes within 5 seconds of Secretariat's winning time of 2:24.00. He may indeed win, but I wouldn't compare him to Secretariat.
Thanks. Well, the last 14 horses who've won both the Derby and the Preakness did lose the Belmont, over a 37-year period.
Materiality could be the main competition here.
“I just pray to god someone shoves a pair of Jockey shorts down that idiot Bob Costas,s throat so we don’t have to listen to him.”
I can’t stand Bob Costas.
I think so too.
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