Upon Further Review

[TGJB]

After Upstart ran lousy in the Derby I was trying to sell running in the Preakness, made a list of something like 13 that came back to run big there. Skip Away comes to mind, It\'smyluckyday, Oxbow, others. Of the ones who ran bad but not horrible Point Given, Pine Bluff, etc.

[miff]

JB,

Why would the Tampa Bay Derby be faster. There were three races at 1 1/16th miles that day and the best could get to was TG 1.75(beyer had TG 2, Rags slower, forgot fig) Carpe\'s X in derby irrelevant to TB fig.

Remarked pre derby that Carpe Diem was slow with nice pattern, TG had him fast.What did you see that was missed by many with Tampa Bay fig,subsequent starts by a few running back?

Mike

[pizzalove]

TGJB I would love to see the video.

[TGJB]

Correct that CD\'s Derby X has nothing to do with it. I had it for review as soon as I did the day.

If you do the race with the rest of the day it\'s right as is, it\'s how I did it originally and it may still turn out that\'s correct. It\'s also the last dirt race on the card following two grass races so it\'s isolated, and tracks often change late in the card.

The way I did it a large number of horses ran significantly worse than their tops, unusual (but possible) for stake level 3yos. The only two horses who look better this way than faster are the first two finishers. So far two of the other horses have jumped forward in their next, Danzig Moon being one.

When I make a final decision I\'ll post the whole race. I\'m guessing someone will remind me.

[TGJB]

Should be on Winstar site, if not now soon. Elliott was lucky to get out of the pen in one piece.

[TGJB]

So I was hoping to get some help from Ami\'s Flatter (second in the Tampa Derby) but he apparently didn\'t like poly at Woodbine and ran in the crapper at 3/5 Saturday. If he ran either another 3 3/4 or a couple of points faster this would be pretty easy, but nooooo.....