NCT:

You should get very playable odds on him.

I need to take a page from General Patton and ask you to use your considerable
influence with the man upstairs and pray for some good weather. I haven't been
on the golf course yet this year.

Yeah its a great betting race. What I have been thinking about tonight is
throwing out all the "Jinx" runners. Pletcher Jinx (Scat, Coaltown, Circular
and Any Given.. is there any one I missed?), BC Juvie Jinx (Street Sense) and
No 2YO race Jinx (Curlin). And I do not know the answer to the trivia question,
but maybe Tiago is "Jinxed" (have siblings ever won the Derby?).

Like you have said, you really have to wait to see who's in the gate and where
but I hate to say I'm looking at 2 who won their last prep on poly: The Pa bred
Hard Spun and the Rug Warrior, Dominican. Nobiz could be 8- 10/1 and is
very bettable at that number.

The problem for me is that I want to play the Oaks Derby Double, and Pletcher's
Rags to Riches was bet like death and taxes in all 3 rounds of the Oaks Future
wager. All 3 of her lifetime wins have come at Santa Anita, the most recent of
which was a blowout in the SA Oaks at 2/5 in a 5 horse field. If you beat her,
almost any double should be lucrative. My problem is I haven't seen many of
these filies run; will have to go to the videotape.