Saturday Preps - Thoughts

[ajkreider]

Will be very interested to see the Bluegrass number.  While the time looks pretty good against the fillies, that race was an awful.  Three of the superfecta horses were coming off of double digit figures, and the winner had paired 14s (fourteens!).

[johnnym]

Agree

[jalt2]

Having not seen Hences\'s sheet I\'m going to guess Commanding Curve.

[johnnym]

The Bird

[Mc990]

Went the day well

[Tavasco]

I\'ll guess Mind That Bird, c/b a geography thing. If memory serves Hence was a solid dependable 10 prior to his jump up. Somewhat slower than MTB\'s 8\'s.

[Wrongly]

Mind that Bird and he\'s actually faster than that one.  Driving line.

[jbelfior]

Watched the BG again. Not crazy about how McCracken broke from the gate. Sometimes it means nothing. Sometimes it does.

Good Luck,
Joe B

[ajkreider]

Since other guesses have been taken, I\'ll go with Animal Kingdom, if he counts as a bomb.

[big18741]

You won\'t see much of IWC.

One work at Fair Hill in around three weeks then ship to Churchill Derby week.

[bellsbendboy]

Again, as usual quality comments.  As per McCRAKEN, very solid race sets him up as strictly the one to beat a month out.  Broke out enough to grab the rein, bumped, angled between to avoid the day long, nasty kickback, as noted was unaffected when outside rival surged, yet settled with far more maturity than most sophomores ever display. Finished OK enough with modest pressure in a race he figured to need.

Two others;  \"Irish\" beat nothing in NY sans the typically talented but unsound UnB\'s Song colt.    Multiple Stakes winner faced a modest G2 winner off form and the other colts who would not be favored NW2 life.

GORMLEY is better than most think and in remarkable hands.

Lastly, would not call a sophomore colt, a grade II SW, bred  as good as the registry allows, a slug.  bbb

[jerry]

Amen to that. I\'ve seen more horses with good patterns lose the derby than horses with bad patterns win the derby.

[TGJB]

That one is even funnier than usual, if you look at which races got the GI status and which didn\'t. Not just the 3yo colt races, the Carter/Commenwealth and Ashland/Gazelle also. Class my ... eye. (Name that film reference).

[Topcat]

ajkreider Wrote:
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> Since other guesses have been taken, I\'ll go with
> Animal Kingdom, if he counts as a bomb.


Oh, 20-1\'s in the bomb neighborhood, to be sure.

[TGJB]

I meant MTB, but yeah, AK too.