Re: Picked Alysheba (672 Views)
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Silver Charm (IP Logged)
Date: December 09, 2003 05:06PM
Thanks Joe B, I thought that was the case for Third in the Belmont. It was a nose photo and I believe it cost him the 1,000,000.00 bonus even though he won the Derby and Preakness.
While we have praised McCarron for several great rides was his Belmont on Alysheba a bad one, he claims he was too far back. Maybe he finally bounced, that was a lot of racing for five weeks.
Speaking of rides how about when Shoemaker and McCarron hooked up later in the BC Classic with Ferdinand and Alysheba. Shoemaker had the benefit of a target by the name of Judge Angelucci from the Whittingham barn (named after a real life Lexington, KY Judge).
Both jocks were riding each others horse the entire race when they got inside the eighth pole Shoe put Ferdinand to a full out drive and got the jump on McCarron, went by the Judge, and had enough to hold of a resurgent Alysheba as Tom Durkin barked a call that still gives me chills
"AND THE TWO KENTUCKY DERBY WINNERS HIT THE WIRE TOGETHER"