I Got Your Magna Five Right Here...

[TGJB]

Threw out the 3/5 shot in the first leg, who had never run fast enough in his life to win this race.

Singled Pollards Vision.

Threw out the Pletcher favorite in the Aventura. Those were the 3 races where I had opinions, which left me live for hitting it TWICE...

With seven horses...

With five horses...

None of which were Castledale.

[MInfurna]

It\'s that Mullins magic.

I was at Monmouth when Castledale won and at least three people wondered why this guy never gets investigated. Some of his horses run new tops 1st Mullins that would make Frankel blush. These same people also questioned the ride Flores gave Rock Hard Ten, at least 3-4 wide around the whole track. If Flores didn\'t kill him and Stevens is able to ride him back, he could very well be the Derby winner.

[Dana]

Well, I thought Rock Hard Ten put in a great performance; interestingly, he\'s way down on the list of horses with graded earnings, so that DQ likely cost him a spot in the derby; but like I said, that may turn out to be blessing in disguise -- he could really turn out to be a nice horse (he\'s a nice horse now), like a Medalgia D\'Oro type of colt -- that\'s who he reminds me of a little. The Derby ruins so many promising horses, so maybe he\'s better off.

Re: Castledale, I think (of course this is COMPLETE hindsight!) when you look back over his thorograph lines, he\'s not that bad and probably shouldn\'t have been so long in that field -- especially if you were smart enough to see the bounces coming for Wimbledon and St Averil (which I sure wasn\'t). I\'m just saying I don\'t think he was an impossible longshot; I certainly could have thrown in him in my pick 5 if I were using a bunch of horses; I mean sometimes if there\'s one horse in a short field I don\'t like, in the SA Derby it would have been the #2 horse, his name escapes me in the moment, that left me with five out of seven \'contenders\' and sometimes I\'ll just go ahead and wheel the race not wanting to get beat by the two I left out (I realize that\'s not a ringing endorsement of Castledale), but my mistake was I thought St. Averil a single, so I had no shot, but hey you gotta take a stand -- we\'re all wrong enough times, but when you\'re right, it will pay off. At least that\'s my hope.

[Dr. Fager]

To TGJB - Who did you throw out in the first leg, the 9th at Pimlico?  It appears that Crafty Guy, a former stakes winner, did have the best last race number in the race.  The other part of the entry was slow.  Granted that Gill\'s horses are erratic, and usually not worth 3/5, if anything is.

[TGJB]

We had Crafty Guy\'s last much slower than Beyer did, don\'t know about Ragozin. I repeat, he had NEVER run fast enough to win that race. He had never broken 4 1/2, and there were at least 3 others who had numbers between 1 1/2 and 3 1/2 recently. Those were the 3 I used.

[Dr. Fager]

To TGJB - Thank you.