Posted on 05/06/2005 7:20:26 AM PDT by Irontank
There's nothing Yankees boss George Steinbrenner loves more than winning the World Series. Then again, he hasn't won the Kentucky Derby -- yet.
That could change with the Boss' Bellamy Road, the record-setting Wood Memorial winner expected to be the early favorite for Saturday's $2 million Derby.
"You just don't win the Wood by 17½ lengths and run that quick. It's unheard of," Churchill Downs oddsmaker Mike Battaglia said. "He will be the favorite, at about 3-1. But nothing less than that."
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Better Steinbrenner should win than another Saudi shiek
Hopefully, George will get mad at the jockey and decide to ride the horse himself.
Hopefully Bellamy Road will get off to the same start as the Yankees.
(It's just fun to watch George implode. Besides I'm a Mets fan.)
You heard it hear first.
High Fly.
This horse has a Seabiscuit mentality.. He does not like to lose. When challenged he puts it out on the line like no other horse I've ever seen, and I've been an casual horse racing fan for almost 10 years.
This colt is very very gutsy, and a winner tomorrow!
I'm hoping the horse runs out to an insurmountable lead and then falls apart on the final stretch.
A big choke in the final corner?
Will Congress be calling a hearing to see if the baseball players shared their steroids with the horse?
I want to hear the announcer say, "No horse has ever blown a lead this big in the history of the derby."
Ah, the sweet sound of utter incomprehensible failure.
Hopefully Steinbrenner's favorite college football team (the Florida Gators, of course) will give him much to cheer about this year.
Every member of the Yankee organization is going to be praying for that horse to win even harder than the folks who have bet big money on it will be.
IF the colt was bred and sold by just about any farm around Lexington, it would be the other way around. He might have shared his steroids with the players. Yearling colts do not look like the colts that go through Keeneland sales because of the bluegrass pastures they've eaten. I know nothing about the colt's breeding, where he came from, etc. I just know how TB breeding has operated since the '40's and it's no secret.
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