5/19 (PIM): 137th Preakness S. (G1), 6 Undercard Stakes

[slotdirt]

Just noticed this on my first real glance through the card. Odd placement to be sure, no?

9th (3:53) James W. Murphy S.

1 Mile (Turf) | Open | 3 Year Olds Stakes | Purse: $100,000

1 Easy Crossing Dominguez R A 116 L
2 Skyring Rosario J 116 L
3 Lemon Juice Franklin M 116 LA
4 Going to Market Karamanos H A 116 LA
5 Shkspeare Shaliyah Solis A 122 LA
6 Mr. Handsome Rodriguez E D 116 L
7 Done Talking Russell S 122 LA
8 Two Months Rent Pimentel J 116 LA
9 Hammers Terror Nakatani C S 116 LA
10 Gold Megillah Velazquez J R 116 LA
11 Adirondack King Castellano J J 116 LA
12 Achilles Lezcano J 116

[Dahoss]

Originally Posted by slotdirt

Just noticed this on my first real glance through the card. Odd placement to be sure, no?

9th (3:53) James W. Murphy S.

1 Mile (Turf) | Open | 3 Year Olds Stakes | Purse: $100,000

1 Easy Crossing Dominguez R A 116 L
2 Skyring Rosario J 116 L
3 Lemon Juice Franklin M 116 LA
4 Going to Market Karamanos H A 116 LA
5 Shkspeare Shaliyah Solis A 122 LA
6 Mr. Handsome Rodriguez E D 116 L
7 Done Talking Russell S 122 LA
8 Two Months Rent Pimentel J 116 LA
9 Hammers Terror Nakatani C S 116 LA
10 Gold Megillah Velazquez J R 116 LA
11 Adirondack King Castellano J J 116 LA
12 Achilles Lezcano J 116

I scratched my head when I saw that. If you're wheeling back in two weeks, why not try the Preakness?

[tywizard]

Smith said he'd try the grass after derby.

[slotdirt]

I'm all for trying grass, but there are lots of options out there for 3YO's to give the lawn a shot: why squeeze him into a race on two weeks rest?

[tywizard]

Originally Posted by slotdirt

I'm all for trying grass, but there are lots of options out there for 3YO's to give the lawn a shot: why squeeze him into a race on two weeks rest?

My assumption is he wants to be involved in the biggest race day of the year in Maryland. Given the fact he's a local guy I guess that would be the rationale.

[Bigsmc]

Originally Posted by -BT-

preakness undercard, home to N1X races that would regularly be carded as 15K claimers @ N2L on tuesdays

-bt-

[-BT-]

Originally Posted by Bigsmc

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-bt-

[MaTH716]

Damn, I would have went to Pimlico if I knew that BT was the Kegasus.

[Calzone Lord]

The first four legs of this Pick 5 are absolutely brutal.

Not only can I not find anything even close to a single in any of them ... I'm also having a lot of trouble eliminating horses.

It's very annoying to me. Like one potential landmine after another.

Sometimes a card can be "too good" when the main attraction is a multi-win bet like the pick 5.

[GPK]

Originally Posted by Bigsmc

Hands down, this is Matts best work evah.

[jms62]

I like Pretension to give value to the exotics and based upon what I've seen here I probably am the only one in the world to think that.

[Calzone Lord]

Originally Posted by jms62

I like Pretension to give value to the exotics and based upon what I've seen here I probably am the only one in the world to think that.

I think he's probably the 3rd best New York bred in the race.

[NTamm1215]

Originally Posted by Calzone Lord

I think he's probably the 3rd best New York bred in the race.

That's a safe bet.

[3kings]

I don't want to sound like Alan but shouldn't they have the scratches uo an hour before post time?

[3kings]

Originally Posted by Bigsmc

Matt, can we get the Mr. Thomas shirt on this?

[NTamm1215]

Originally Posted by 3kings

I don't want to sound like Alan but shouldn't they have the scratches uo an hour before post time?

I just got them off of Twinspires, so it might be an Equibase issue.

[3kings]

Originally Posted by NTamm1215

I just got them off of Twinspires, so it might be an Equibase issue.

Thanks Nick, usually Equibase has them first.

[jms62]

Originally Posted by Calzone Lord

The first four legs of this Pick 5 are absolutely brutal.

Not only can I not find anything even close to a single in any of them ... I'm also having a lot of trouble eliminating horses.

It's very annoying to me. Like one potential landmine after another.

Sometimes a card can be "too good" when the main attraction is a multi-win bet like the pick 5.

It Preakness day dude those first 4 legs will probably be won by 3 favorites.

[Calzone Lord]

It's a very slow track based on what we saw in the first dirt race today.

Solid starter alw males -- the 4 length winner had run figures of 77-88-82-76-80-78 in his last six starts.

They went 25 for the first quarter and the 8.5f race broke 1:46 for the final time.

Unless some work is done on the track -- the fractions and especially the final time will be very slow this year no matter what.

[Calzone Lord]

Based on that race -- a 1:50 flat for 9 furlongs on this track would be about a 108 Beyer type race.