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Title: 2014 Awesome Again
Post by: TGJB on June 11, 2018, 08:03:14 AM
Someone who’s better at this than me should post video of that race.
Title: Re: 2014 Awesome Again
Post by: trackjohn on June 11, 2018, 08:09:36 AM
Thjs one?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZYIKaXPtPU
Title: Re: 2014 Awesome Again
Post by: TGJB on June 11, 2018, 08:43:17 AM
Sky Kingdom was the uncoupled entry mate of the 1 horse.
Title: Re: 2014 Awesome Again
Post by: JR on June 12, 2018, 07:07:10 PM
I remember that race. This stablemate stuff is bullshit.
Title: Re: 2014 Awesome Again
Post by: jbelfior on June 13, 2018, 03:23:58 AM
The 2016 Sword Dancer and Flintshire is another one that comes to mind.

Apparently the Bafferts and Browns of this game feel that they are the game. The hell with everyone else.


Good Luck,
Joe B
Title: Re: 2014 Awesome Again
Post by: BitPlayer on June 13, 2018, 07:54:06 AM
Espinoza got days for that ride.

https://www.paulickreport.com/news/people/espinoza-suspended-seven-days-for-careless-riding-in-awesome-again/
Title: Re: 2014 Awesome Again
Post by: bobphilo on June 15, 2018, 06:53:49 PM
TGJB Wrote:
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> Sky Kingdom was the uncoupled entry mate of the 1
> horse.
Espinoza was rightly given days for this stunt. At least those stewards were doing their job. Sadly, Baffert, who probably orchestrated the whole thing got away with it again.
Title: Re: 2014 Awesome Again
Post by: JR on June 16, 2018, 06:10:50 AM
That’s the one I was trying to recall. That was criminal. I don’t remember who the jockey was.
Title: Re: 2014 Awesome Again
Post by: JR on June 16, 2018, 06:22:33 AM
Gryder. That was as close to a fixed race as you can find.
Title: Re: 2014 Awesome Again
Post by: shanahan on June 16, 2018, 10:02:25 AM
Hardly
Title: Re: 2014 Awesome Again
Post by: bobphilo on June 16, 2018, 11:37:45 AM
JR Wrote:
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> That’s the one I was trying to recall. That was
> criminal. I don’t remember who the jockey was.

It was Espinoza who earned himself a suspension as well as the future rides on California Chrome and American Pharaoh from a grateful Bob Baffert for doing his dirty work.
Title: Re: 2014 Awesome Again
Post by: johnnym on June 16, 2018, 01:25:21 PM
Chrome was not Baffert’s
But get your point
Title: Re: 2014 Awesome Again
Post by: bobphilo on June 16, 2018, 03:05:12 PM
johnnym Wrote:
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> Chrome was not Baffert’s
> But get your point

I stand corrected. It seems like Baffert gets all the top horses.
Title: Re: 2014 Awesome Again
Post by: Caradoc on June 16, 2018, 05:02:04 PM
And Espinoza had the mount on AP well before this incident.  He rode him to win the Del Mar Futurity on September 4th, weeks prior to the Awesome Again.
Title: Re: 2014 Awesome Again
Post by: bobphilo on June 16, 2018, 05:51:38 PM
He knew which side his bread was buttered on.
Title: Re: 2014 Awesome Again
Post by: JR on June 16, 2018, 06:03:50 PM
OK. There may be closer. It doesn’t make me feel any better about that one.