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(I'm talking to myself here, I swear)...
 With Sufficient out, I've narrowed it down to 5.  Juice Easy Ryder Down the Road Tell a Tale I Robot 
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02-27-2009, 05:11 PM
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Those 5 make sense.
Yeah, postponed 24 hours. And I work Sundays so I can't go.  I only started this job last week, wouldn't look good if I had a sick day!I've been to every Derby since my first one in 1992.
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02-28-2009, 07:15 AM
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Actually my amazing boss let me work today, so I'm going to be at my 16th Derby tomorrow.
 The weather's improved a lot, it should be fine tomorrow. The track will still be wet, though. Probably in the Slow range. The Derby time will probably be in the low 2:30s.
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02-28-2009, 01:13 PM
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Been bad weather over there, Ed?
I have two friends in NZ at the moment one of whom was meant to go to the Derby.
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02-28-2009, 04:21 PM
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02-28-2009, 04:58 PM
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Luckily it turned out not being so bad after all. And it's beautiful today, the track is officially Slow but I wouldn't be surprised if there was an upgrade.
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03-01-2009, 12:32 AM
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I keep thinking Diamond Glitter isn't that bad... or am I crazy?
If i were playing it (and I'm not), I think I might use Juice, Easy Ryder and Tell a Tale over Down the Road and I Robot but toss DG in too. Oh hell I don't know... just make sure you let us know what it was like, how the most Xcellent one looked and how much fun you had ed!!!
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03-01-2009, 01:02 AM
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Coniston Bluebird? Really?
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03-01-2009, 01:36 AM
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Really.
Replay: http://www.ellerslie.co.nz/show.cfm?...wf&w=294&h=240 I wouldn't mind if it was one of the top Australian horses, but he isn't. He looked average over there. Really disappointing and embarrassing. I thought this was a good crop of 3yos, but it's obviously not.
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03-01-2009, 10:39 AM
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So Down the Road 2nd, Tell a Tale 3rd and Juice dead heats for 4th? (Can't watch the replay yet but I will!). Oh and what happened after.... he tossed his jock? I can understand that you're disappointed but still... it's a good crop... so many nice horses over there. I hope you had fun anyway and had some winners.
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03-01-2009, 03:47 PM
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I can't believe that horse won.
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03-06-2009, 11:53 PM
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I'm seeing a pattern...
NZ Derby winners: 2001: Leica Guv 2003: Cut The Cake 2005: No race (they moved it from December to March) 2007: Redoute's Dancer 2009: Coniston Bluebird I don't rate any of these horses as worthy Derby winners. None of them did much after winning this race (too early to say that for CB, but I don't have high hopes). 2000: Hail 2002: St Reims 2004: Xcellent 2006: Wahid 2008: C'est La Guerre All really good horses. 2010 should be good.
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06-29-2009, 06:08 PM
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He arrived in HK around the 15th along with... Red Line Zivalee Tsonga Zorro's Lad Rhone Delta He's Licarocket Kabalevsky and Kiss Me Tonite
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06-29-2009, 09:59 PM
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Tell me about Licarocket if you can.
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06-29-2009, 10:56 PM
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Oh yeah forgot... Down the Road is keeping his name.
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06-30-2009, 08:55 AM
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That's good news.
He's Licarocket won his first start really impressively (beating Lady Alberton, who won a G3 a couple of weeks later). He's been maybe a bit disappointing since then, but he had 2 wins in his 9 races here and finished in the first 5 8 times. Hopefully he'll like his new home and show the ability we saw in his first race here.
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06-30-2009, 10:26 AM
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Hope so!
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