Congrats to Mine That Bird, Bennie Woolley Jr. and Double Eagle Ranch, Needam TBs and Lamantia Blackburn, and Calvin Borrell and Mr. or Ms. X who bought the horse out of 2007 Oct. Fasig Tipton. Forget odds, lack of faith and disbelief. Is that the most amazing Derby performance by a horse, ever???
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That was amazing. Mine that Bird was flying down the rail! Borel is so fun to watch! Never give the rail to Borel! Wow! Got to love the connections...trailering your own horse around...sound familiar? Hope all horses are okay after this race. I never even could find FF in the race. Loved Einstein's race also, what a grinder.
hello lbarge. I saw him coming and was wondering "who the heck is that." too bad about FF.
Wow, that was a surprise!
I was on track with my angle of snythetic races at age 2 with dirt-sharpening races in early 09 - that was my Papa Clem rationale.
But, I overlooked the other horse following that protocol because of his career Beyer best of 80.
My mistake, how foolish of me.
My next project is to look at the past years with synthetic preps and see if that theory holds water.
Is there anywhere online I can access Derby PP's for the past few years for free?
To add: I Want Revenge was in that group also, too bad we didn't get to see him.
your heart rate measurments of work on synthetic vs. dirt is interesting. 50% difference you're saying?
Similar class horses recover equally from 4f on dirt at Churchill vs 6f on the polytrack at Keeneland, is what I mean by that.
i.e. They go 50% further on synthetic to create the same oxygen debt as on dirt.
bears more looking into!
ie. train on dirt, race on poly???
bill-i edited my most recent post to include your heart rate monitor--see last paragraph.
Actually I like TRAIN on poly, RACE on dirt.
You train 20 days for every day you race, that pounding on dirt (especially with the weekend warrior 1 breeze every 7 days routine) is dangerous as hell on 2 year old bones.
But if you train on poly, your 'go to' 1/2 mile breeze on dirt must now be 6f to get the same fitness effect.
ahh!--I forgot to take the injury concerns into account.
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