FrankD. Wrote:
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> In an effort to cure my parimutuel withdraw I’m
> jumping in feet first for Friday & Saturday. It
> started Sunday night with some casual looking
> leading to texts and conversations with Miff,
> Jimbo, Bee, Uncle Bill & the misguided
> Fairmount😇 My blood is reaching a slow boil.
>
Here\'s hoping it\'s an \"Ali-like return to the ring!\"
> However: I’m plagiarizing Jimbo, there are some
> tough favorites to leave out of this years
> dance..... I’m tossing STELLA & BELLA on
> consecutive days and suggestions about my mental
> competence have been asked.
>
> Long layoff’s, a quirky track, full moon, tides,
> vets, hyperbaric chambers, chiropractors, climate
> acclimation and where they ran their numbers all
> seem as important as their numbers, trips, works,
> etc......
>
> Hopefully out of competition testing, 6 months out
> for steroid use and the advertising of the most
> stringent testing ever level the playing field.
> Then again they can only test for what they know
> exists?
>
> A question I’m surprised hasn’t come up here
> or anywhere. Why is Jorge Navarro not allowed
> access to the entry box at Laurel or Delaware but
> can enter here?
> If I was on NBC’s production team I would bring
> back Tara& Johnny to choreograph
> the you tube juice video adding triple axels and
> double lutz’s to “we fuck everybody†it
> would get an Emmy.
>
> BC Pick 4:
>
> Juv Turf: It’s a Chad, Chad world, a Chadzacta
> in a turf stakes? What a surprise.
> The 2 inside horses as savers BP & Happily.
>
> Dirt Mile: As much as it disgusts me Sharp Azteca
> gets the lions share of the ticket. This one
> brings his race with him EVERYWHERE. A strong pace
> advantage does not hurt. I’m tossing Mor Spirit,
> 5 pt top, 5 months off, gaps in work pattern, lots
> of chiropractors in B.B. barn, beat me....
> Saving inside again GE, Iron Fist. I’ll play
> vertical here adding Midway to the 2 inside horses
> back and forth with Azteca, pressing SA on top.
>
> Baby Boys on the Green: Co toughest heat of the
> weekend with Saturday’s 5f turf sprint IMHO. I
> have to go 5 deep.
> Mendelssohn, Catholic Boy, Masar, James Garfield,
> Hemp Hemp Hurray
>
If the ML (or anything close, really) holds, #3 - Sands of Mali will be burdened by a few of my $. 30/1 on the owner of the fastest (just barely, but refer back to the 30/1) fig in the race? I\'ll try!
> Distaff: Tossing Stella, not the monster she was
> last year and will be bet like she still is.
Agree, and agree.
> Forever Unbridled rattled off 7 straight 0’s, a
> top in her last as a 5yr old, she can certainly
> win but my preference goes to the 3 yr olds.
> Elate will be over bet, everyone says she looks
> the part, I saw a friendly team Mott member before
> her last Oklahoma work and she couldn’t possibly
> be any better. Normally a horse that is in
> Saratoga the 3rd week of October and racing in
> Cali on November 3rd would be an auto toss.
> However it was 60’s & 70’s the whole month up
> here, acclimation not a big deal. She gets 25% of
> my ticket.
> Paradise Woods provides the value in the heat
> IMHO, she or Abel with be the 4th and 5th betting
> choices and to a horizontalist THATS HUGE. Her 2
> Big SA figs we’re done with a lot left in the
> tank. She has had her clunkers, after all she is a
> fillie! Ooooops # MeToo.... A favorable pace
> scenario and my money says she can lead the merry
> go round all the way.
>
> Good luck to all and safe trips for all
> participants,
>
> FD
Good luck to you, too!
