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Title: 4th Saratoga
Post by: horsegoer on August 21, 2016, 11:34:23 AM
Race with several contenders but I think with the solid pattern,1st trainer change and 15-1 current odds Birchwood Road should be keyed.
Title: Re: 4th Saratoga
Post by: horsegoer on August 21, 2016, 11:53:09 AM
Hopped up and had very slow beginning...Collmus even called it..not sure he would have been there anyway.
Title: Re: 4th Saratoga - Chad Brown Photos
Post by: Mathcapper on August 21, 2016, 07:14:59 PM
Apparently even the judges have resigned themselves to the fact that Chad Brown will win all photos. In what looked to be a very tight finish for place, Brown\'s Performance Bonus was surprisingly put up immediately for the place spot, with a pending photo for show involving Runaway Posse, who likely figured prominently on many a TG seminar attendee\'s tickets.

Posse won the show photo by a neck. In the post-race charts, it was revealed that PB beat Posse for the place spot by the grand total of a nose.
Title: Re: 4th Saratoga - Chad Brown Photos
Post by: magicnight on August 21, 2016, 07:45:28 PM
I was barely paying attention today, and opened up the feed just in time to see that photo, which - having seen on Twitter that Shug\'s horse had won - seemed to be a \"place\" photo mislabeled as a \"show\" photo.

I just now watched the replay and of course you are right. Collmus - who is quite aggressive on calling finishes by eye - said it was a photo for the place and named the 4th place finisher. One instant later they put up the Brown horse in second. The guy just can\'t take a bad picture these days.