Quote from: Zenyatta on November 01, 2013, 07:17:40 PM
Finish of BC Marathon. Sorry, didn't get the world's best angle.

Glad you went.  Looked like a beautiful day.  Hope it was not too hot.

Better at Santa Anita than in NYC, with all the rain they had there Friday.  Racing at Meadowlands canceled.

Del Mar in 2016!

As for Royal Delta and Princess of Sylmar's "flops" today, any moment now, we will likely get the obligatory "she didn't handle the track" excuse from their trainers.

Some times, even really good horses just don't have it.   Why must there always be an "excuse" from the connections.

Quote from: Islandgirl45 on November 01, 2013, 06:16:58 PM
Was there some sort of neurological damage that contributed to this? What would cause this kind of thing to happen?

So the horses flown to LA for the Breeders Cup from Europe and the east coast should have stayed home because the flight was too stressful?

Quote from: Flintknapper on November 01, 2013, 07:40:28 PM
I expect the detail was to stem a predictable flow of questions from fans and investors.

Nothing wrong with the farm's candor.  I applaud it.

Too much "spinning" in horse racing to begin with.

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Quote from: Dusty on October 30, 2013, 10:59:44 PM
BACK TO TOPIC - Who is going - I am = Cigarshop is - what a fabulous couple of days! Weather looks PERFECT!

I'm going! 

I'm assuming you'll be in you regular spot? Will you be at Clockers' Corner Saturday morning?

Yep ... My usual spot.

As far as Clocker's Corner? We asked them and they say there is no Clocker's Corner during The Breeders' Cup. If you've heard differently, I'd like to know as I really wanted to do it for the BC. Who knows? Maybe they just meant there would be no food services during the BC.

Wow, no CC during the BC? That's a first as far as I know.   I would like to go to CC @ around 7-8 am on Saturday, and whoever shows up from the board I will buy them coffee (for sure) or breakfast (if it's being served). How's that for a wake-up call!

That's the spirit, Zenyatta!

Yup, I plan to come up to LA to say goodbye to HP, and the Hollywood Futurity would be a good day to do so!

What does Aqueduct average in attendance in the winter?

3,000 tops, maybe?

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I know of at least 1 member of this board who is oh, about 100 miles away and COULD go to the BC, but he's not. And he's not a bad handicapper either. He picked Vale of York over Lookin at Lucky in the Juvy the year Zenyatta won the Classic. Not bad. But then we both looked at his PPs and wondered why he was going off at such high odds. Nice payoff for that wager.

I once saw that same individual walk into an OTB in Chicago, stay for three races (at Hawthorne) and pick all three winners.  By that time he had lots of "friends" at the bar, all of whom wanted to know who he liked in the next race.  They were sorry to see him go!   

Didn't the connections of Giant Oak think he was a little odd, though?

Actually, Giant Oak's connections were the ones who were a little odd.

They kept changing track surfaces, race lengths, equipment and jockeys with the Oakster, to no avail.  When the poor confused horse lost, they blamed him and called him stupid.  Yet, his connections never shipped him to run in SoCal, despite the existence of three classic length races (Santa Anita Handicap, Hollywood Derby, and Pacific Classic) on three artificial surface tracks that fit his plodding, come from behind style perfectly.

So who's was the fuzzy thinker?  Me or the Oakster's connections?