FOY

[pip4126]

What are your thoughts on the 2nd and 3rd? I agree that the 1st race will be deep.

[apindy62]

I like Tapakena also. Thank you for sharing your thoughts on the first race Tavasco. What a betting race and great points by all on why they liked their horses. I am going 6 deep also in the first.

Looks like a sloppy track for the Gotham. Trivia question who was the last horse to pull off a Gotham, Derby Double? I was shocked by this.

[Molesap]

I was going to say never at first, but I think Secretariat won the Gotham - I am pretty sure he won the Derby. I can\'t remember anyone else - maybe Funny Cide won the Gotham but don\'t remember - I know he ran second to Empire Maker in the Wood, but don\'t remember his other preps - so as NY bred maybe???

[pip4126]

I agree with you on Big Red

[Tavasco]

Race #2
I expect to use #1 Big City & 3 Tapakena in the pic 3,

#8 Jefferson Street #4 Howard Wolowitz in doubles with 1st race horses which is looking more like only 4 or 5 horses


Race #3
#8 Cugino &  #5 Abrumar in the pic 3.
ebx #3 Kiro & #7 Royal Majesty, #6 Silent Heart in an questionable insurance play.

After I sleep on it I may end up Just playing the Divisidero Colt to win in race #1, especially after just discovering that Divisidero also sired Abrumar.

At this point a lot hinges on how many AE\'s draw in? They all seem live and races 2 & 3 look more competitive to me than they did earlier.

[pip4126]

I also like this horse. This horse has excellent action for the turf. My only concern is he raced on 1/6 and didn\'t work again until 2/16. Any thoughts on that?

[pip4126]

Thank you for the info. I might use the #6 and #2 along with the #1 & #3 in the second race. The third race came up tough for me.

[apindy62]

Well done gentlemen! Big Red is correct over 50 years ago

[BitPlayer]

According to Dave Grening on Twitter, Locked and Victory Avenue are out.

[billk5300s]

Very frustrating when there’s 5 furlong sprinters in a route and Saffie Joseph gets 25 50 to the half.

[ajkreider]

Not sure what happened.  Irad just got of the ambulance in tears. Speak Easy scratched

[Tavasco]

It may be that a Derby contender develops out of this years FOY but I don\'t think it will be any of the ones who ran today. My first impression - Unimpressive!

[Roman]

Very!

[ajkreider]

It sure wasn\'t impressive visually. Probably gets an ok number.

Beyer gave it an 88, which is  2 points slower than the Holy Bull - which was almost 2.5 seconds slower than the FOY by the clock. Dornoch was also a point heavier.

The Devona Dale went the mile about .2 seconds faster than Real Macho and Born Noble did on HB day, so I don\'t see how they could make things that much slower for this race.

Seems like the better comp is the Hooper runners, who ran back yesterday, about .7 quicker.  The FOY time stacks up ok compared to National Treasure\'s.

[Roman]

I believe Beyer made the Holy Bull faster. Initially they gave the winner an 87 beyer, than adjusted it to a 90 , if I am remembering correctly.