Derby Thoughts/How'd We Do?

How did the blog do prediction wise, and some more thoughts.

1.  Plecher shoeing both his horses on race day.  How many reasons r there to avoid this hardly the least of which is exhausting the horse on performance day.  Little stuff.

2.  Union Rags yearling managers said when he was at their farm Union Rags was lazy.

3.  Union Rags "bad ride", or was it.  Sometimes the horse just refuses.

4.  Rule out Hanson.  "Sand Rolling vid shows lack of appropriate tightness for Derby."  Hanson got cooked. Heck of a horse that might benefit from a trainer named O'Neill.

5.  "Trainer of Take Charge Indy" as  certifiable idiot."  Hospital records now to prove it.

6.  Bodemeister--"how can u bet against him?" (watching the Ark. Derby).  double for the Preakness, possibly?.  Any horse in the Derby get more out of it training wise than B, if he survive?.  If u're going to run that sort of race,  in terms of injury prevention, would be wise to train for such an effort.

7. Was field really that deep.  Hard to tell.  B basically cooked most of them.

8.Gemologist.  Ran 6f forward and 6f backward.  Bled possibly?

9.  No lasix on Derby Day, they're discussing.  How well would that have worked on a hot humid day such as last Sat?  Half that field would have bled fairly seriously at those speeds in that weather.

10.  "TTimes galloping vid (earlier in week) showed Alpha, Rousing Sermon, Optimizer, El Pradino, Liason non-competitive".  Indeed.  It's always fairly easy to spot those without any chance. 

11.  "Union Rags just fails to look as if he's about to run the race of his life, and so I'm eliminating him from my board".  And then on Sat.one good looking stride of gallop I pick him.  Sometimes, read ur own stuff.

Any difference in the workout schedules of the horses near the front compared to the back.  For anyone interested, some comparisons below.   You'd have to look in close detail to spot the differences.  Right now it's a 5f once a week world.

Creative Cause --note Santa Anita Derby on 4/7
http://www1.drf.com/workoutsForHorseAction.do?rNo=09013643

Dullahan--note Blue Grass on 4/14

http://www1.drf.com/workoutsForHorseAction.do?rNo=09031094

Went The Day Well--

http://www1.drf.com/workoutsForHorseAction.do?rNo=09005624

Take Charge Indy--Florida Derby on 3/31

http://www1.drf.com/workoutsForHorseAction.do?rNo=09017086

Gemologist Wood on 4/7

http://www1.drf.com/workoutsForHorseAction.do?rNo=09000374

Daddy Nose Best Sunland Derby on 3/15. Messed this one up and DRF just removed it.  Typical 5 and 6f Asmussen once a weeks stuff with slow 4f work to my memory Mon. before the Derby.


http://www1.drf.com/workoutsForHorseAction.do?rNo=09007391