Good call. I loved Street Sense (and was a supporter of his daddy Street Cry).
Did well on the Derby, but missed the 4th place finisher in a super that would have paid $14,000.
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Hope wins the Triple Crown....but I can’t play him on top in the Preakness. I’ll play a 9/2 favorite in the Derby, but he’s a lock to be less than 2-1 in the next leg, so that pretty much eliminates him from the top spot on my wagers.
Just noticed this post: I have my own number system I have come to use as an adjunct with other all other considerations and experience evaluating likely winners and / or top finishers. My number system put the top four as STREET SENSE (138) CURLIN AND HARD SPUN tied at 133, and longest price of the field SEDGEFIELD at 131. At the outset I figured I had to eliminate at least two horses in such a large field, so I chose both Imawildandcrazyguy and Bwana Bull. I had a superfecta on 7-8-2-1——and that’s the way they were running very close to the wire until the camera covering it pulled away to focus on the top two. I thought I might have a huge super, then I heard the announcer say “Imawildandcrazyguy” got fourth. They never seem to show you all the payoffs in their coverage of these races, so I had to go to the computer ten minutes later to see it was -7-8—2-5-1 .....my SEDGEFIELD.longest price on the board at 56-1 got edged out right at the wire by a much shorter priced longie crazyguy at 29-1. THAT super as you know paid $29K. Mine would have paid 60-90K probably. Very sad moment for yours truly. In case you were wondering my very simple number system involves adding the top BEYER number for the last four races with the total number of horses beat in the last four races. Of course this info is only available if you are using the Daily Racing Form.