Hay oats and water

[Ace]

Bill Mott wins all these races on hay oats and water, yet Tricky Dicky wins the Classic after a 10 year suspension. Lots of chalk today, not conducive to me winning money. Blah.

[jerry]

Chalky day but good races. No walkovers. Some good finishes.

Bottom fishing for bombs didn’t pay. Most of the races went true to form. Trips played a big role in a few. I never knew Euro jocks could do that rail move. Pretty clever cornering on August Rodin. Won him the race. Up to the Mark was the better horse.

[jerry]

Biggest surprise today was National Treasure. If Baffert wasn’t training horses he’d be building dragsters.

[pip4126]

What an embarrassment for the California-based horses and trainers in the Cup races!

[jerry]

Not really. Generally speaking they didn’t have the best horses coming into the races. The results were true to form. National Treasure was a surprise.

[ajkreider]

Looks like both of those are off to the breeding shed.

Kind of amazing that less than a year ago, Up to the Mark was losing dirt races by 10 lengths. Goes to show that even a TAP is sometimes grasping at straws in this business.

When was the last turf horse that was G1 caliber at both 8F and 12F?