Re: My craziest Derby future book bet ever??? (639 Views)
Posted by:
Chuckles_the_Clown2 (IP Logged)
Date: February 17, 2004 11:54PM
I dont have many I'm tossing right now. Its still too early for that. I usually question the early favorites, though not on the Breeders Cup / Juvenile Championship angle. So I've questioned Tapit and Second of June, but take a horse like Sir Oscar. I can't eliminate him yet. He ran some bang up two year old numbers and they put him away and in his first back he met some burners and didn't look good against them. Yeah I bet him. But the first one back off a layoff is excusable, though you'd like to see a horse like that finish within striking distance in the manner of Action This Day. If you look for your three influential sires in a horse's pedigree, Sir Oscar has Buckpasser, Northern Dancer and Mr. Prospector's foundation sire "Native Dancer". Though theres no dismissing the Count Fleet and Nashua from Prospector's dam side:
http://www.pedigreequery.com/index.php?query_type=horse&search_bar=horse&h=SIR%20OSCAR3&g=5&inbred=Standard&x2=n&pedloggedin=0
Anyway, how I rate Oscar in the future will depend in part upon his trainer, who I respect.
But Gulfstream is a funny track and I wouldn't take the results in the Fountain to necessarily mean the winning horse is as good as it appears. Both Trust n' Luck and Empire Maker will vouch for that.
CtC