musings & K nld

[shanahan]

NCT - so crowded I didn\'t even attempt to call or find you guys yesterday.  Wildest crowd I have ever witnessed at Knld, and that is saying something.  The weather is picture perfect, and the tailgaters make a college campus jealous.

Lava Man...he gets no respect outside CA (at least to the extent you\'d think) because of the trainer and the whole CA racing scene IMO.  We really need to see him win outside of CA and then we\'ll mix up a whole new batch of KoolAid.

Super Frolic - we\'ve run out of jockey/ride excuses.

Pletcher - he sat (stood actually) in our box for a race yesterday, he was so focused I didn\'t even say anything to him (or I was too stunned he was there).  No bones about it - this guy has the best stock, manages the best team, and that = success.

today\'s early pik 3 - race 1)  1,5,6 / 7,4,8,1 / 9,5,11 (weight)

don\'t see where either Bloodhorsr nor DRF feels compelled to put the NTRA pik 4 payout on their website...I\'ll admit it - I lost it singling SF at the end, but jeez louise - were 3 of the 4 odds on?

go Cards.

[JohnTChance]

> Super Frolic - we\'ve run out of jockey/ride excuses.

I\'m glad someone said this. The dead-rail excuse was my personal favorite.

[TGJB]

John, you should know better. You think I give out dead rails because of one horse?

No jockey error this time-- he didn\'t fire. And if LM ran as big as I think he did, it wouldn\'t have mattered if SF did.

[Chuckles_the_Clown2]

TGJB Wrote:
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> John, you should know better. You think I give out
> dead rails because of one horse?
>
> No jockey error this time-- he didn\'t fire. And if
> LM ran as big as I think he did, it wouldn\'t have
> mattered if SF did.
>
>
>

Super Frolic ran about a path wide per the charts. Defering here to whatever the TGraph ground loss guys think.

He was beaten 4.5 lengths for it all

and was beaten .5 lengths by Giacomo running a similar path.

He looks to have run about a 1, which wasn\'t up to his -1\'s but at the track and distance it wasn\'t all bad. He got worn down by Giacomo who can come late on his best day, but otherwise he ran into the others. He\'d of certainly faired better running the same race at Hawthorne.

Theres no indication David Cohen hurt the horse, but David Cohen?

[TGJB]

The dead rail was in the Hollywood Gold Cup. The winner at Hawthorne ran a big one, we wouldn\'t have won it even on our best.

[Chuckles_the_Clown2]

Well, the Hawthorne Gold Cup winner ran well but how fast the Hawthorne Race really was can be argued.

If Tgraph pegged Its No Joke at a negative 2 obviously Super Frolic didn\'t run a Negative 2 yesterday. But my point is whatever you wish to score Super Frolic  yesterday he would have improved upon it in Chicago at a distance and surface he\'d shown an affinity for.

Had he pulled it off and beaten Lava Man, it would have looked nice in Black Type in the Stallion Directory sure. Had he run his best, it would have been close. Additionally, I believe he can run a little faster than he has been scored. Not a lot, but a little faster.