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Old 11-04-2006, 06:42 PM
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My vote to Street Sense a great pick by Steve.

Against the clock he might have won the Distaff today with another sixteenth. Yes, a golden rail trip but what a nice race he ran. Good for Nafzger.
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Old 11-04-2006, 06:44 PM
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Street Sense and Ouija Board.
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Old 11-04-2006, 06:45 PM
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O board gets my vote. Street Sense was very good but the old mare was awesome. I think that she'd beat this group of colts in the Turf if they had tried. On to Japan?
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Old 11-04-2006, 06:48 PM
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Best to me was O Board.
Best of the second bests...Octave.
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Old 11-04-2006, 06:51 PM
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Invasor for me.
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Old 11-04-2006, 06:52 PM
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2:02 and change. Track didn't slow up that much on the day. Not for me.

Didn't someone on this board say he'd shade Sec's record? Ha ha.
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Old 11-04-2006, 06:54 PM
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Ouija Board was spectacular and proved she is one of he best race mares in the last bundle of years. What a classy girl as she just destroys that solid field. Film Maker I absolutley love also as she is ultra consistent and fires her best shots in the big races time after time.
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Old 11-04-2006, 07:06 PM
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2:02 and change. Track didn't slow up that much on the day. Not for me.

Didn't someone on this board say he'd shade Sec's record? Ha ha.
I agree. I am extremely disappointed in that time. I don't know how much the track may have slowed down, if at all, but that was a very slow time. I'm guessing they will split the first two races off from the rest or they may keep all the earlier dirt races together and split off the Distaff and Classic. Without splitting the card, when u see that 1:34.77 for the second race and the 2:02.18 for the Classic, it's not good. Very much like last year. I think it's pretty clear the track slowed down after the first two races. But it seemed to me, in my amateur opinion, that the track stayed pretty much the same throughout the rest of the day. The 4f/6f splits of the other route races:

JF-47.46....1:12.34
Juv-46.67......1:11.74
Dist-46.75...1:11.59
Classic-46.60......1:11.11

Also, I'm not too impressed with Invasor's closing of 25.18 It just seemed to me like the race was slow and none of them were really running at the end.
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Old 11-04-2006, 07:09 PM
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Under a 115 Beyer(I would think--by a few) which the average for the Classic is near a 118. Subpar.
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Old 11-04-2006, 07:12 PM
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Did anybody forget miesques approval?
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Old 11-04-2006, 07:16 PM
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Was that Giacomo's fastest race? As he goes to BREEDING FARM,he puts in his career best? LOL
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Old 11-04-2006, 07:18 PM
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Was that Giacomo's fastest race? As he goes to BREEDING FARM,he puts in his career best? LOL
I think he could have been a very nice horse if they'd based him outside of California.
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Old 11-04-2006, 07:47 PM
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You're nuts if you don't say Street Sense, golden rail or no golden rail.
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Old 11-04-2006, 08:10 PM
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INVASOR

yes, he was with a Sheik
but... you gotta love an Uraganian bred by Candy Stripes
winning the BCC in KY
over an overhyped AP Indy!
LMAO!!!!!!!!
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Old 11-04-2006, 09:15 PM
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Dreaming of Anna, Street Sense, and Invasor were all top notch, but the best of the day was Ouija Board who ran her race and took command when asked to prove her absolute class today. She's the best turf mare in the word period.
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Old 11-04-2006, 09:58 PM
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The rail bias on the main track helped. Brother Derek would not have lasted as long as he did without the rail trip. Invasor's time looked slow because he came from the outside
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Old 11-04-2006, 10:02 PM
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You're nuts if you don't say Street Sense, golden rail or no golden rail.

joey....that turn of foot was f*cking awesome....she went from 4-5 behind to 4-5 ahead in the blink of an eye. Thors Echo screwed me in the Sprint....was alive to 5 horses in the sprint after singling Anna and Ouija...but got no love in the sprint.....oh well.
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Old 11-04-2006, 10:03 PM
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Street Sense made the day for me. It would've been a sorry day without that score.
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Old 11-04-2006, 10:10 PM
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I'll cast a vote for Street Sense...it was also Denman's worst call of the day...SS got an afterthought call at the top of the stretch, and then not another until practically under the wire....Denman was concentrating on the faves...
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Old 11-04-2006, 10:14 PM
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Ouija Board for me. She was magnificent.

Street Sense ran well, but I dont know how good that field was. I doubt very seriously there is a legit Derby horse coming out of that pack
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