Triple Crown hopeful Barbaro loses... Seriously injured during race

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[HairOfTheDog]

Post Position	Silks	Horse Name	Trainer	Jockey	Morning Line
1	(NA)	LIKE NOW (Picture NA)	Kiaran McLaughlin	Garrett Gomez	19-1
2		PLATINUM COUPLE	Joseph Lostritto	Jose Espinoza	28-1
3		HEMINGWAY'S KEY	Nick Zito	Jeremy Rose	30-1
4		GREELEY'S LEGACY	George Weaver	Richard Migliore	38-1
5		BROTHER DEREK	Dan Hendricks	Alex Solis	7-2
6		BARBARO	Michael Matz	Edgar Prado	1-2
7		SWEETNORTHERNSAINT	Michael Trombetta	Kent Desormeaux	6-1
8		BERNARDINI	Thomas Albertrani	Javier Castellano	17-1
9		DIABOLICAL	Steve Klesaris	Ramon Dominguez	24-1

[American Quilter]

My method is comepletely unorthodox. I pick the pretty one. I also pick the ones with names I like, or I'll sometimes pick a grey one.

That's what I do, too. It reminds me of the episode of Cheers in which the guys talked Diane into betting on the football pool, thinking they'd win more that way. But she won, by picking the teams from cities that had foreign-born symphony conductors. Made them very mad.

[nuconvert]

Thanks for the thread. I'll check back later

[RobFromGa]

All this and no POST TIME. You should ask MOD to put the post time in the title...

[HairOfTheDog]

Well, I'm sorry ;~D Post time approximately 6:14 Eastern on NBC

[RobFromGa]

no problem, thanks for the info...

[tertiary01]

I liked the Affirmed, Alydar duels. Nothing else separates those with talent from those with heart and talent.

[onyx]

I have not read the DRF, so I am only a spectator today.
I hope you didn;t lose as much as I won on the Derby.

I'm sticking with the Derby winner, but I hate to do that when I haven't read the form.

No money is involved today, so I'll just be rooting for him to win the second leg.

[onyx]

I like the trainer too --- his life story is heart warming.

[Hildy]

see your freepmail...Sam just went over to the RIVERSIDE to place our bets. It's tradition!

[onyx]

I just read it.
"Big" bettor, you...lol.

I have planned my CA trip to include Del Mar's opening day plus another 10 days.

[Hildy]

We'll have to arrange when we're going to get together. I guess I'll come down to San Diego. Maybe I'll go to opening day with you. Cousin David knows everyone over there at DelMar, maybe I'll get him to go with us as well!

[saleman]

Yea, those races stood out for me too. One reason was, B'ham had just opened a horsetrack. The winner of the first Alabama Derby ran 3rd in all three races as I recall. His name was Codex and he wasn't far off the pace at all. Won a little money on Codex in the Al Derby.

[onyx]

Actually, I despise opening day, but my youngest son loves to go. Maybe we CAN make it a group adventure?

I am VERY SERIOUS at the track.
I really go there to win.
I like to go EARLY and leave late...lol.

[Petronski]

Onyx, if you're a horse-racing fan, let me remind you the Belmont Stakes is being run in Elmont, NY (on Long Island) on June 10.

[Wolfstar]

The Derby was the most impressive Triple Crown race I've ever seen, with the exception of Secretariat's Belmont.

Secretariat is still the only horse to win the Derby in under 2:00. Both he and Sham, the horse who finished 2nd to him that day 33 years ago, crossed the wire in under 2:00 minutes. Secretariat still holds the record for the Derby and Belmont. In fact, his time of 2:24 in the Belmont is still a world record on dirt for 1 1/2 miles. For quite a few years, he also held the world record on dirt for 1 1/8 miles, which he set in the first Marlboro Cup, a race created specifically to showcase Big Red against the best older horses in the country.

Secretariat won his Kentucky Derby in 1:59 2/5, achieving the unheard-of feat of running each quarter-mile segment fractionally faster than the one before it. The successive quarter-mile times were: 25 1/5, 24, 23 4/5, 23 2/5 and 23. The very game, superb racehorse, Sham, crossed the wire in 1:59 4/5, a time that would have won any other running of the Kentucky Derby, before or since.

THAT was the greatest Kentucky Derby ever. Barbaro has to look of greatness about him, and he might turn out to be a Triple Crown winner, but his Derby was ordinary by comparison to the 1973 Derby.

Another remarkable thing about Secretariat was that he was equally as magnificent on turf as on dirt. His last two races were on grass. He won them both, the Man o'War Stakes at Belmont, setting a new record for 1 1/2 miles on turf, and the Canadian International at Woodbine. In both his racing seasons, he won all of the year-end honors for which he was eligible. Horse of the Year twice, Champion 2-year-old, Champion 3-year-old and Champion Turf Horse.

Named by ESPN and one of the top 100 athletes of the 20th Century, he was and always will be the greatest horse I have ever seen, and I'll always love him.

Those who are interested can visit Secretariat.com

[I still care]

We lived near Belmont, and my Dad and I used to go there all the time. We saw Secretariat race, in one of the few he lost. But he was beautiful even then. They allowed only betting to win, and the track was littered with tickets of people who had bet hundreds of dollars on the great horse to win, and threw them away angrily after.

One day my father went to see the great match race with Ruffian, when she broke down. He said seeing the poor horse struggle along the track with her broken leg, still trying to win, was the one of the most horrible things he ever saw. After that we stopped going for quite a while.

We still call each other and talk about the Derby, though. I told him last year to bet on Giacomo, because he had an Italian name. Salute!

[eleni121]

What a beautiful race he ran in Kentucky. He deserves another win today.

[gopwinsin04]

What was amazing in the Derby is that the jockey didn't even use the whip on Barbaro at the end!

[onyx]

What this? Two huge events on LI the same weekend!

[saleman]

Yea, I was 11y0 when Big Red won his triple crown. NO DOUBT the greatest ever. We'll know more about Barbaro shortly. He definitely has talent but alot can happen.