Riva Rich,
I thought Silver\'s point was that the \"Fixers\" were not fairing particularly well until the Bluegrass and that his encouragement to \"send it in\" on Plech was \"tongue in cheek\".
I tend to agree with the notion the Fixers are not fairing well, but the Key to the Bluegrass was \"Polyturf\", which the Plech horses had handled pretty well. That\'s the only real reason I went with Monba. (Well that and the fact that the \"Make the Point\" Fountain of Youth field owed me one):
http://www.thorograph.com/phorum/read.php?1,40336,40337#msg-40337Note the Bluegrass fractions were not glib, but Monba did run near them and ran wide to boot. I had a good day, not on the basis of the Bluegrass, that was a minor cash, but what I\'m excited about is hitting the recent preps with good visualization percentage. I feel \"dialed in\", like I just ran a Negative 1 without hardly blowing. I can take this Derby. I can take it down to Chinatown, Figs don\'t bounce me now!
>Rich E. Tee wrote:
>\"Just to get Jimbo hot under the collar, I will make the same prediction I made
>a little after the Fla Derby-- Big Clown is your Derby fave, 5/2 odds, if he
>takes his place in the Derby gate. He shakes loose of lesser speed types
>(Recapturetheglory, War Pass, Clownboy Cal) on the backside near the track
>kitchen. Big Clown actually gets 3 lengths of separation from the field at the
>top of the stretch...\"
I got my \"Visualization Goggles\" on Riva Rich and I gotta tell you, I don\'t see BRB forging to the front on the backside. If it happens, it happens turning for home. But what I do see is you seated in front of the television with a mint julep in one hand and your pencil \"cat whip\" in the other, kitty\'s rump there ready for the lash. But with a peek at the screen, you tuck the pencil under your arm and spare kitty the whip by grabbing the scruff of its neck, and hand riding the startled and snarling feline to the wire.
Jimbo, tend to agree with your \"Most Likely Winner-RIP\" post. You never know, but I think a horse has to be competitive in its final prep. (Or at least have back race \"Fast\") If Pyro took the roses now it would be almost unprecedented, which leads me to believe he\'ll be closer to 10-1 than 5-1. (May reassess with a sloppy derby surface now projected at 56%.)
Hey you filly owners. NO ONE remembers who won the Oaks!
richiebee Wrote:
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> Silver:
>
> I am a big fan of sarcasm and wit, and saw plenty
> of both in the fact that
> the same poster was responsible for \"The Pletcher
> Empire-- RIP\" and \"Pletcher
> is Due\" within 5 days of each other.
>
> Sarcasm and wit are good weapons to possess in
> this game, and at one point
> or another we must turn these weapons on
> ourselves. A comedian used to joke how
> gambling brought his family closer together, how
> they used to live in a large
> house in the suburbs and ended up in a cramped
> apartment in the city.
