Belmont possibles

[miff]

\"Slugs beat me\'


..ha, my gambling mantra, except for a distance like the Belmont where brilliance does not seem nearly as important as it does in races at normal distances.

[miff]

War Story and Conquest Curlinate just entered the Belmont. Owner of War Story says his horse going to front, prediction will run last.

[oumemoires]

m., if you quote available news articles, is it perhaps relevant also that  clement stated, in an article  from today or yesterday on bloodhorse (im a common proletariat -- have no sources/inside information whatsover and can only go by public information) that, to paraphrase, he wished that he had a horse for the belmont and explicitly mentioned  frosted, contrary to your long island sources?

[miff]

If one could book the opinion of every horse trainer, they\'d have to rent space in Fort Knox to house all the money.

[oumemoires]

m., 100% agree and thats why i recommend that you give your sources in baltimore as a retirment gift bifocals and an edition of the egyptian book of the dead so that they know what \"death\" and \"skin and bones\" looks like on the physical level.

[TGJB]

You need to pay closer attention.

[oumemoires]

closer attention to what m. stated are \"rumours\"? if their truth value is 0, why even mention them.

[TGJB]

For the same reason I mention Ragozin figures.

My turn-- what was your reason for bringing this up?

[oumemoires]

apologized to m. in private message - complete outsider, respect m.\'s opinion from reading the board over the years and dropped my single onto ap in the pick 4 and now my wife is asking me where the money is for her new summer dress

[TGJB]

Geez, far be it for me to get Mike an apology. What was I thinking.

[miff]

Yea, yea...meanwhile the world waits with bated breath for TG to release the Preakness figs!

[pizzalove]

Whether you use Beyer figures or Tg figures or a combination of both.  there are no absolutes here.  you have to look how the race was run.  Frosted quite simply was the best horse on Derby day.  the eye test wins.

[TGJB]

Doing the day now, doing it the way I said. As an added bonus it fits tight (within half a point) with the variant for the next race, two turns, and only other one after the rain hit. There are a couple of races I\'m going to review later on from this day, the Preakness is not one of them. Which is not to say it\'s 100% right, conditions terrible and too many x\'s to know that for sure. But other than maybe both the second and third horses going forward exactly the same amount next time it\'s hard to see what could get me to change the figures.

[jbelfior]

As per Stevie Wonder?

Good Luck,
Joe B

[TGJB]

When did this become the \"make unsupported assertions\" board? You friends with the guy who asserted Upstart will never beat top horses at 1 1/4?