Re: Hey Jerry & Arkansas Derby (607 Views)
Posted by:
Chuckles_the_Clown2 (IP Logged)
Date: April 15, 2007 12:16AM
The circumstances just don't add up to a slow race. They also dont add up to a lethargic pace. The strange surface clearly played a role, but the winner closed into the pace and the place horse too. There were four horses on the line, they weren't all there because the pace was lethargic.
Most of the day off the pace horses faired well, unless they were odds on speed types. Very wide from far back was not a bad place to be either.
Come next race, the horses that ran on the pace are going to be decent bets and Teuflesberg ran significantly better than a 4 or 5.
All in all, there were some decent horses in the Bluegrass, but Miff is probably right. Put a line through the race it was a very strange result.
The next one is getting more and more interesting.
Caradoc Wrote:
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> I very much doubt a box will be necessary. Give
> or take, the winner pairs his top, SS continues
> his decline from the huge 2yo effort, Zanjero goes
> back a couple of points or so, and Teuflesberg
> pairs the figure he has now run 4x in a row.
>
> By the way, there's all this talk here about what
> by any measure is a slow race. Were any of you
> guys watching the Arkansas Derby?