Tampa Bay Derby

[jbelfior]

Grantham is interesting at anything close to his 20-1 ML.

Not a bad pattern and comes out of the 1 1/8 Withers where he middle moved wide vs the runaway Chad horse.

Battles on gamely in the lane with the Rebel bomber.

Could get underneath tomorrow at a big number for Maker with Sammy Macho Camacho aboard.


Good Luck,
Joe B.

[Tavasco]

Hurricane warnings. Lots of high winds and some heavy rain on and off. I\'m thinking the weather will affect the outcome.

[confused]

Shipsational over Happy Boy Rocket, Classic Causeway and Giant Game.

[statuette]

Nice call

[prist]

jbelfior Wrote:
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> Grantham is interesting at anything close to his
> 20-1 ML.

Nice handicapping, Joe.

[Gary Irish]

Hello Joe

Yeah, the Maker colt helped me. Not in a real time monetary way but I will explain.

Having entered the Hawthorne Spring Stakes Showdown, a free contest with a 20 WP format, and having no contest experience, I missed the fact there were more than one contest on some weeks, so I missed out on an obvious $40 when I selected just one winner (Green Light Go) neglecting to use another mare who won at 1/2.

I moved up at least 200 spots with the $180 place mutuel. Maybe millions of people go by, but they all disappear from view.

Sha bop sha bop.

[statuette]

Good luck Gary I moved up as well now 280s having 226

[Gary Irish]

Good luck to you as well!

The email I got from Hawthorne says I am 80th (of 1144) with $328. The leader has $526. Lots of time to make it up.

Say hello if you are in Cicero on a Saturday. I sit in the last row of the cubicle desks with my back facing the track. I am the one with the sheets, which I like to spread out. No one uses anything but the DRF DRP and house Program, so that should make it easy to pick me out.

I still wear my yellow \"Los Angeles\" baseball cap purchased on Venice Beach back in 2012. Yes, it has been washed a few times.

[statuette]

I use to go to the Joliet otb I can't travel much.funny story my wife grew up across sportsman had some stories lol

[jbelfior]

Go get \'em Gary.

Good Luck,
Joe B.

[prist]

I was a little surprised when the Beyer came back a rather pedestrian 84 for this race. I then looked at the pace. Things seem to really slow down after 2f.

Raw Beyers
2f: 73
4f: 48
6f: 63
8f: 81
8.5f: 83

Nice workout for the winner.

I\'m not a figure maker. I only play one at Thoro-Graph. :-)

[Boscar Obarra]

I\'m not, just eyeballing the  other races and the times , and watching.

 No one asked for anything until pretty late in the race.  Cakewalk for the winner, best or not.

[prist]

A long time ago I wrote a spreadsheet that combined the Beyer methodology with some of the work done by Huey Mahl and Howard Sartin. Remember turn-time?

Turn-time
4f-6f: 91

FWIW, the turn-time is in line with his Beyer top.

Jay Privman did a little rundown of this race at the Daily Racing Form.

Tampa Bay Derby

[BitPlayer]

Craig Milkowski\'s Twitter feed indicates there were timing issues that affected the race:

https://twitter.com/TimeformUSfigs/status/1503073352616972288

[prist]

I would have never known. I try to avoid anything Jack Dorsey is/was associated with.