richiebee Wrote:
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>> POST SCRIPT: Just looked at the charts... 7 to
> frickin 5 on this horse?
> And Contessa wins the feature with a reformed NYB
> slow rat carrying penal
> weight off of a NYB stake win? Thank god I worked
> today... it would have been a
> long ride home from Belmont. I'VE HAD IT WITH THIS
> GAME...until Saturday at
> least.
I would appreciate your reaction when you see the race clearly as to me it was clearly a huge performance upstate, and recently other animals that are off as long as he was hang together, Shakespeare for instance. I think Stem Cell as was televised concerning Greg's Gold out here. I am so tempted to call this Grabby Gomez, but I know there's a bias under that opinion, similar to the one I have on the plus side for JRV. The ones I have on the "anticipation" list always torment me until I can "File" them. So, even after watching it twice, I am still among Gomez, Ground, Un-Glue, and that's not very comforting.

On the Saturday schedule, I think it's ironic that if you would have asked me 30 years ago if I would pass a race day if I didn't have to I would have considered the question ludicrous. Now, for the last 20 straight years, with a one year exception when I consulted to my old firm in CHGO, I have been able to "attend" albeit long distance, race books, office, but I have had time. Now, it's the racing during the week that keeps me away until the week end, in general. This is my response about the 7/5 part of the equation.

Given that price, and the softer ground, I was really serious in thinking after it was all over that Indian Charlie would have been the play of the day if you absolutely had to play one, and that says something about "weeks" in racing currently - 8/5 on a horse that never raced on the surface? Lemon Drop Gal - I did get 9/1 with all the same logic, but it was on the week end. If you add that to conditioned claimers at the Spa, etc., I wish I were 100 years old, and had had this time 40 years ago.

The only thing that makes a little sense to me about the feature is that the fall has been in my experience, (after Saratoga), a dangerous time for "re-starts", for the ones that need to get anything straightened out. It just seems like lots of them don't get it right unless or until it's over and they really start over. And on the other hand many short priced horses with nice numbers win, while many regress after the year's racing so that what you saw last time, ain't what you get. This time between now and the inner is the worst for me, which I think is why I was seeking feed back.
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