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04-23-2009, 08:03 AM
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4/23: Derby Works & Notes
Only one worker this morning but lots od activity. Notes from the past 90 minutes.
GENERAL QUARTERS: 1:01..4, galloped out in 1:16.1 on a track that started the morning quicker than it has been the last couple of days. Simply put, it wasn't a great morning for fans of the Blue Grass winner as he labored through the drill. SQUARE EDDIE and I WANT REVENGE both made very positive appearences on track while galloping. Eddie is just plain good looking and may have gotten exactly what he needed in the Lexington. Revenge seems to be doing very well and looks better and more energetic every day. MUSKET MAN jogged maybe 3 miles today as Derek Ryan had him go around 3 times. Long, slow efforts like that are stamina-building and likely explains how the Irishman has induced route success out of the sprint- bred Yonaguska son. WEST SIDE BERNIE was just out here but disappeared. May have gone to the Paddock for a session. MINE THAT BIRD just ambled by... There was an incident involving a Dallas Stewart/West Point worker who was in a tandem drill with two others and spooked at the eighth pole trying to jump the fence. The rider went over, bounced off the rail and hit the ground hard but appeared only shaken. Horse was easily gathered by an outrider. More as the morning progresses or later as I have to go to Lexington in a bit.
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04-23-2009, 09:20 AM
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Come on, Steve-o, I need more to feed my mancrush on West Side Bernie!
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04-23-2009, 10:23 AM
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His price on raceday should be going up. I think he had to be the clear cut favorite for which horse would get the consensus worst reviews going in.
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04-23-2009, 11:18 AM
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Don't know if you heard Leroy Jolley last week, but he told the story how Foolish Pleasure shed frogs on BOTH front feet after the Florida Derby loss from a strange fungal infection or virus. They were not fully healed weeks later for the Wood Memorial win or even 100% for Derby. Could you imagine what the talk would be these days if a horse was coming into the Wood and Derby like that? Jolley said he knew they were in good shape for Derby when Pleasure took the Wood at well below 100% condition.
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04-23-2009, 11:23 AM
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Did Rachel Alexandra work?
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04-23-2009, 11:27 AM
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All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind. ~ Joseph Conrad A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right. ~ Thomas Paine Don't let anyone tell you that your dreams can't come true. They are only afraid that theirs won't and yours will. ~ Robert Evans
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04-23-2009, 11:38 AM
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 Stamina isn't related to conditioning.Of course, if more trainers bought into this, Roman (and his dosage), and others, would get even less attention than presently. What's next for you, Steve, exploding the 'doesn't like to run behind/between horses myth'? Or 'doesn't like being inside'?
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04-23-2009, 01:31 PM
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Fats, You realize this will get you removed from Pedigree Ann and Lauren Stich's Xmas card lists? And you can forget that Costa Rican vacation at Dr. Roman's hacienda.
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04-24-2009, 10:57 AM
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You can't really believe the drivel above? Sure conditioning matters and can lengthen a horse but I guess Curlin could have been the same horse at 6f's or for that matter a turf star with a different training regiment? Imagine this folks Groovy at 12f's all because he ran up a few hills in Md. for a season... Fatty stick to handicapping winners, apparently they fertilized the lawn at Prospect Park and the nitrates got into your bloodstream.. You test positive again?
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04-24-2009, 10:59 AM
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04-24-2009, 11:05 AM
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