marcus Wrote:
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> Last week while dining in mexico city , i was
> seated at Poncho Villas old table at what was his
> favorite restaurant and noticed from the window ,
> while waiting my desert cafe latte , a group of
> mexico city thoroughbred police horses passing
> along with a manifestation on juarez blvd and
> wondered if a stallion registry could be found to
> trace these horses back and then see what kind of
> numbers they ran ...
Marcus:
If you can get a hold of Jimmy Breslin\'s biography of Damon Runyan, it includes
a fascinating retelling of a day at the races that Runyan enjoyed with Pancho
Villa. On that day Runyan met his future wife, Patrice, who was 12 years old at
the time, making the Luv Guv\'s \"twinkie\" an old woman by comparison...
Breslin\'s Damon Runyan a great read, but his best stuff may have come in \"The
Gang that Couldn\'t Shoot Straight\", where he describes the wife of a Mafia
chieftan who went out in a fur coat each morning to start her paranoid
husband\'s Cadillac.
Also in Laura Hillenbrand\'s \"Seabiscuit\", a huge flood at the Tijuana Race track
is described, a flood which wiped out the track and resulted in a lot of the
thoroughbreds running free in the countryside. Hillenbrand
describes \"impoverished mountain dwelling Mexicans, who usually got around on
wormy little burros, ...cantering through town in high style, straddling blue
blooded thoroughbreds...\"
In Re War Pass:
1) Zito says he was cut up, which will lead to treatment with antibiotics, and
as TGJB points out, this will lead to missed time.
2) Flighted: I disagree. I think if War Pass makes the Wood, he is closer to
7/5 than 7/2.
3) If WP runs in the Wood, he does not get the benefit of using this race as a
final Derby prep which he can approach 90% cranked. Since he got very little
out of the TB Derby, he will need to be all out in the Wood. How does that
affect his Derby prospects?
4)Once again, the Triple Crown is a piece of headgear with one huge jewel (the
Derby) and two rhinestones. Why wouldn\'t LaPenta and Zito take the necessary
time, regroup and point for a Preakness which will likely feature a much shorter
field (not to mention a slightly shorter distance?).
5) Personally I am still following the development of two \"Tagg Team\" runners,
Tale of Ekati and Elysium Fields.
6) Final Derby prediction. If indeed there is a filly standing in the gate for
the Derby, that will be the filly that Winning Chuckles has been touting. The
reason the name of this filly has yet to be disclosed is because CtC is not
quite sure yet of who it might be. More prognosticration (a hybrid of prognosis
and procrastination) from your Chuckles, who has allegedly narrowed the
Presidential race down to Billary, Obama and McCain.
