Ghost of Dwight Drane

Sorry plenz..... I wouldn't have been on this horse for anything today....and I love betting Majestic Warriors. In hindsight the only thing I can say is she was on the inner all winter and stretched out on dirt after a 2 month layoff. But you still had 5 horses in here I would take at their price over her. I will try to find a bomb for tomorrow. So Many Ways was my only good pick today. I actually had her in the Oaks futures.

I'm not making that call for anyone! I'm just trying to figure out how big to go on the Oaks/Derby double. Revolutionary getting 9-1/10-1 in the doubles but the yahoos are betting Borel in early betting at 5-1...may only get up to 7-1.

Maybe Darcy was right afterall. Load your team with a bunch of non-hitting midgets and the league will get to your vision sooner or later. Every time we have a division game, we should call guys up from Rochester and just send them into the hotzone, looking to get hit. Maybe go all Rick Flair and keep a razor blade inside your glove to slice yourself on the way down.

We need to outlaw visors.......

Have Fun! If you want to beat the crowds at the betting window.....get a Twinspires card at the service desk and put cash on it. Then you can use the machines. 20 deep at the window....some machines have nobody in line. OK.....Oaks....Midnight Lucky / Close Hatches/ Dreaming of Julia Derby...Revolutionary/ It'smyluckyday/ Orb

So she's an Irish girl? :thumbsup:

This gives me an idea.......who wants to go in with me on converting a few whack-a-mole machines into whack-a-weasel......and vulcanized rubber Darcys keep popping up? Just when you hit enough of them to think you won a bunch of tickets.....the score resets to zero and the next game sucks an extra 4% off of your Dave&Busters card.......

Watching a media member go public on a forum is like watching an off duty cop flash his badge at a bar looking for free drinks and food. I'd rather they shut up about it and let's talk on merit. It's better for all involved. Although if Chz is really Bridget Blythe.....then i want to know......

Yeah....he was just rolling guys last night. The first game of the playoffs are always a little tricky. I remember Grosek would up his physical game and get away with 3 or 4 things before the refs finally gave him a timeout. Kotalik would play more physical too, but would get the stick high. I think it's just a case of seeing what you can get away with and keep bringing it. Kassian won't bust in my opinion....unless he really is so goofy off the ice that he does something stupid. At worst he will be an indtimidating 3rd liner....but his puck possesion last night at such a pace was impressive. In 4 of his fights this year, his opponent went to the box bloodied. He's just a young thoroughbred that needs to know when to conserve his energy and when to go for the wire. I would like to see Vancouver win this series just to see how Kassian impacts a good 12-14 games of hockey built for him. It's funny to hear the national guys praising him for what he brings and how Vancouver obviously got the better of the trade hands down.

Even better....Derek Roy did! On the 2nd goal, Roy lost his man in the corner, then gave a half-hearted crosscheck in front of the net which knocked his man down, but still allowed him to get off a clean shot and then feed to a wide open man 7 feet away in the slot. I didn't see the 3rd goal, but if Kassian got a penalty....he still started the game with Kesler and set the tone, then absolutely steamrolled a guy in the SJ zone. He really was good with controlling the puck as well and even had guys laying off him on the sideboards a few shifts. I can't remember him taking such command before, and if you saw the 12-15 seconds I am talking about, Foligno has no chance of matching this kid's overall talent. Should be interesting to see how the series plays out.

Fair enough......I was just pulling an Ott. Micro not macro....... Sorry.

I'm in tight the next few days, but I will look at the undercard for Saturday and put my favorite plays up.

The spotlight on Dougie's scalp, irritates PA's glaucoma...

http://www.drf.com/news/2013-kentucky-derby-field-odds Nice little video on each horse......DRF is by far the best source for info. I'm sticking with my guns.....Revolutionary and It'smyluckyday. Revolutionary only jogged yesterday instead of galloping, which is a bit of a red flag. I hate that Calvin is on him since he will get 2 points shaved off the odds.....but he's probably a good fit. The horse had a crazy trip in a few of his big races and came out looking good. He should handle the chaos fine. It'smyluckyday looks like a Preakness winner to me, but he has blossomed so much the past month after a slightly disappointing race in FL. He was the most talked about horse on the backside in FL early in the year.....and now looks to be moving forward again by his work in the morning. 10-1/15-1 on the morning line, but I think they go off at 8-1/10-1.........box the exacta for $100 on a $2 bet. I would be fine playing either to win. Rosie's horse is ok...and if you like Revolutionary, not stupid to use. I think the pedigree screams shorter..... Prado is on Pletcher's worst shot, but he is having a great rebound year. He almost slipped through the cracks at one point but has been going strong again. He's a really good guy too.

That tends to happen when you are looking under stalls in the men's room......

She says it's 3 3/4.

No...it's a REBOOT according to Sir Theodore..... That usually includes scrapping and starting from scratch.

I just texted "Go Bruins!" to a party in Boston. My hate for the Leafs runs deeper......Lucic on Miller was our own doing. Obnoxious Canucks are a whole different animal......

Bos vs NYR Chi vs Van Bos over Chi in finals......

Yeah.....the purses get big and temptation follows. I was a partner on a NY bred horse that placed in some stakes, and he had gotten older and a little cranky in the ankles. There was no way we could send him out there with a clean head though. He was still sound enough to be a riding horse and had paid his dues. It's easier to do if you have a big barn and clients. Those little guys training only a few horses depend on income to survive. That's where things get dicey. There are also big outfits that you have to assume do things that aren't in the best interest of the horse. That pisses me off. I've scaled back in my ownership participation big time the past few years. With big purses come higher training fees, and the price of feed and transport has shot through the roof the past 4 - 5 years. It's a big hunk of change to have something go bad. That's why there is a market for $5,000 claimers. Easy to get in, and if you are a yahoo.....things don't work out fast, they ditch the horse. That's what I'm sure Jo sees where she helps out. The only time we have run for $5k is if the horse has a makable condition available, or 6250 open for a classier older horse. I also have never claimed a horse at those levels before. Not all horses there are sore. A lot are just SLOW.....and the slow horses almost always stay healthy!

Very Nice Now all you have to do is get a giant taxpayer subsidy to build a playground across the street and then tell everyone how great you are to society because you are building them a playground even though there are 8 playgrounds where all the actual children live. In the meantime, your manager pays out all sorts of money for a fancy new refrigeration system, but failed to take into account the wiring couldn't bring the amount of energy needed to power it, and 2 years worth of inventory spoiled as it sat in the heat. But that manager told you everything was fine, and he kept selling the spoiled meat to the customers of the town. By the time you found out what was going on, 97% of the town was vomiting and exploding from consuming your product, and the smart ones eventually figured out the source and vowed never to go back to your McDonald's again.

With Darcy at the helm.....we hold Zimbabwe currency.......

Sure, there are scumbags that take $300 to ship a horse to a killpen......but the majority of the people involved in racing love the animals. You don't wake up at 4am and stay til dusk some days, 365 a year unless you have a passion for it. The key is to self-police in the industry. Don't be tempted to take a few thousand dollars for a horse that should call it a day before he gets hurt. And 90% of horses are sold at some point. The economy going to crap has helped stop the overbreeding, so that is a good thing. The industry has also changed drastically over the past decade for the welfare of the horse. Artificial tracks, curtailing theraputic drugs when not needed, seriously reducing the stress in the 2yo auction process.......And what most people have no clue about is that horseracing is like the Military as far as medical technological advancements. Because there is so much at stake and the horses get pampered at the better levels, the therapies and equipment used is years ahead of what you see even in NFL/NHL lockerroms, and certainly the average hospital. We've been doing stem cell transplants for a decade. Infared/ultrasound and magnetic therapy as well. Hyperbaric chambers......because it isn't regulated for humans, things get put into play much faster. The first time I even heard about a digital Xray was at the barn.....and the detail and precaution you can use with that is amazing. If only humans were looked after like that. I'm glad you are having fun and helping. I appreciate it. I give to different organisations that retrain, or look after ex-racers. It was interesting seeing one of my favorite buddies who I would wrestle with and was all boy, turn into a fu-fu with his little show steps and canters. It was like watching Lindy Ruff get his hands on Zack Kassian! But it's great that he will move on to be with someone that should enjoy and keep taking care of him.

So she's an Irish girl? :) That's great you do that. That's one of the things the industry has gotten better about the past decade.....really trying to take care of as many as possible. It's impossible to keep track of everyone. Once a horse leaves your hands, you can try and keep an eye on them, but it's hard. We always try to place a horse with people we know after racing. I've been lucky in that one of the keys I look for when buying is intelligence and to an extent, personality. A smart horse is going to learn faster, take care of themselves better, and enjoy their job for the most part. I've had people lobby me to get a horse after it retires years in advance. It's sad though at the lower levels like Finger Lakes sometimes......they get so used up for so little if people don't give a crap and they end up crippled. We retire a horse before it ever gets near that point...but if you sell one, you have no say what happens down the road. And how cool is it if you are looking for a pleasure horse to end up with a guy that was a star on the track? Imagine keeping Danny Gare in your backyard and feeding him carrots........

She just doesn't want to be on the hook for losing anyone money. I can't blame her for that. But "Inside Information" is pretty funny. Everybody talks and there is nothing unethical about it.....competitors talk to each other every day. It's such close quarters, you can't help but talk and share. And you also see stuff that paints the picture. The closest thing is knowing that a horse has no shot but is running around the track. Or a horse had a problem last time and is fine now and should run much better. If you don't share that info...understood. And usually that is to cash a bet or stop someone from wasting money. That I can understand if she doesn't want to bet into it.....but that's one of the perks of being back there. As long as someone isn't purposely stiffing a horse, or doping up.....it's all fair game.