post Derby 2008 thoughts - Sports Posted by Captain Rod (Monday May 05 2008 @ 05:51PM EDT)

As expected, the monster made his stamp. The Preakness may have been a walkover even without the mass defections from the Derby field. El Gato Malo and Kentucky Bear are the only fresh horse threats mentioned so far. RecapturetheGlory may or may not join the defecters. Certainly looks like a walkover to me and no doubt a set of fresh suprises await at the Belmont. I watched the 1973 Belmont from youtube to see how much BB really reminds me of the freak. I was right about Pyro. I was wrong about Monba. Colonel John was tops amongst the sythetic prepsters so I was right about that although we need to see BSF's before closure. The horses reported to have greats works at CD all finished in the top 6. Hmm...nice correlation. I know this as I threw them in my BB atop exotics and just missed. Denis of Cork did a pseudo-Street Sense imitation going last to 3rd and sneakily on the rail in deep stretch. CoolCoal Man lunged from the 1-hole to occupy the 2-hole lane and avoid a fallback to avoid turn of the rail in fine fashion. This caused a slight ripple effect of inside to outside push. This coupled with the outside speed's inside push resulted in the middle horses all getting the shaft. In hindsight, this scenario should have been obvious. Duly noted for same future scenario. Beyond the top 5, the remaining finish positions are generally irrelavent. It was obvious that the jocks of Z Fortune and a few others let up late when a decent finish was out of reach. It looks like I was half-right about Prado's jump. Tale of Ekati faired well from 2 hole and Adriano/Monba were last 2. Those 2 were both sythetics prepsters also. The race was marred by the tragic death by euthasation of Eight Belles. Yet the accusation by PETA against Gabriel Saez is absolutely ludicrous. My bomber made late board calls as I expected. The FLYERs followed up the great classic race by advancing in the playoffs! I believe even stronger now that the triple crown drought will end this year. I also watched the gut-wrenching loss of the triple crown in 1998 - Real Quiet. Look for it on YouTube - amazing finish.

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