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02-03-2010, 12:02 PM
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Is there some reason?
Why the first race at AQU today is restricted to "grey or roan horses" ?
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02-03-2010, 12:20 PM
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How has someone not yet named a horse Clayton Bigsby?
I guess there just aren't that many dark and blind race horses. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFR9xkZm4ck
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02-03-2010, 12:42 PM
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Do they still run The Gray Ghost Handicap at the Meadowlands?
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02-03-2010, 12:51 PM
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It was an incredibly weak race for the class level. You've got an open Starter Alw with a 38K purse being won by a NY Bred who is slower speed figure wise than Freddy Mo's 5K condition claimer at Penn. Unbridled Danger wasn't able to snap his impressive streak of 30 straight finishes out of the exacta.
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02-03-2010, 01:02 PM
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They used to have the same race at Calder on Extreme Day and called it the Gray Pride race
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02-03-2010, 01:09 PM
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I believe the Arromanches S. is coming up . That is restricted to greys as well .
Note edit: This race is the Arromanches. A tribute to the beloved NY grey . http://arromanches.homestead.com/ Last edited by richard : 02-03-2010 at 02:37 PM.
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02-03-2010, 01:30 PM
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If they ain't running an "all black" horse race for equality I am calling Al Sharpton.
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02-03-2010, 02:11 PM
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unbridled danger..
I have been following this horse (thankfully not betting on him) since Contessa had him a few years ago. He is interesting because he runs for a trainer that only has him as his only horse. Together they have been able to "pay the rent" running over his head and collecting the (larger) small prizes at this condition. I follow just to see if and when this horse might drop to an appropriate level..Seems to be the quintessential "hobby horse"?
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02-03-2010, 02:33 PM
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02-03-2010, 02:37 PM
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02-03-2010, 02:46 PM
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Perhaps they can write a race restricted to horses foaled in the state of NY who are also inelidgible to ever be NY Breds. I'll take Freddy Mo in a walkover.
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02-03-2010, 03:03 PM
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Calder has run them too.
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02-03-2010, 03:42 PM
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It now seems pretty obvious that this race was written specifically and only to help out the owner/trainer of Unbridled Danger.
It's not like that guy hasn't done some favors for the racing sec. - he ran him 24 times last year - and already 4 this year. Unbridled Danger has now missed the exacta in 31 straight races. Today was his 51th start for owner/trainer Robert Young. In those 51 races, he was never a shorter price than 6/1. Today he was 3/1 on the ML and went off at 4/1 because the conditions of the race made it as easy as humanely possible for him. Have to credit the racing secretary for cleverly and sneakily finding a way to give the guy his best shot.
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