Horse Racing Forum - USA Thoroughbred Races

Squeaky wrote: ↑Sat Apr 27, 2024 1:23 pm

brunanas wrote: ↑Sat Apr 27, 2024 12:15 pm when i started reading i thought you were going to say they'd give him a break and regroup. but that's a big ask for Lukas. oh well...

Was hoping he could get some farm time then train at SAR and aim for a listed stakes or allowance race there. But that is a pipe dream.

stark wrote: ↑Sun Apr 28, 2024 10:39 am Here's an idea (thanks Jon Hardoon)

Add a whole new aspect to the Derby post positions.....

He with the most points earned gets to pick their post first.

The horse with the least number of points gets to take whatever is leftover after everybody else has picked their stall.

Makes sense to me and Sierra Leone and probably a few others as well.

Gemini wrote: ↑Sun Apr 28, 2024 11:53 am

stark wrote: ↑Sun Apr 28, 2024 10:39 am Here's an idea (thanks Jon Hardoon)

Add a whole new aspect to the Derby post positions.....

He with the most points earned gets to pick their post first.

The horse with the least number of points gets to take whatever is leftover after everybody else has picked their stall.

Makes sense to me and Sierra Leone and probably a few others as well.

That does make sense…but what do you do if multiple horses have the same number of points?

stark wrote: ↑Sun Apr 28, 2024 10:39 am Here's an idea (thanks Jon Hardoon)

Add a whole new aspect to the Derby post positions.....

He with the most points earned gets to pick their post first.

The horse with the least number of points gets to take whatever is leftover after everybody else has picked their stall.

Makes sense to me and Sierra Leone and probably a few others as well.

stark wrote: ↑Sun Apr 28, 2024 5:09 pm After the first 4F, a fast pace..... would you believe.....

https://twitter.com/HorseToWatch/status ... 08/photo/1

CoronadosQuest wrote: ↑Sun Apr 28, 2024 5:30 pm

stark wrote: ↑Sun Apr 28, 2024 5:09 pm After the first 4F, a fast pace..... would you believe.....

https://twitter.com/HorseToWatch/status ... 08/photo/1

I don't know if I see Just A Touch leading the field but I could be wrong.

Katewerk wrote: ↑Sun Apr 28, 2024 6:34 pm This is a hail Mary, but here goes...

I'm going to be in South Jordan, UT (south SLC) on Derby day. Does anyone know of a sports bar or similar where we could go watch the race? If there's wagering, so much the better. TSN has stopped broadcasting it so I can't even pull it up on my laptop at a McDonalds or similar.

stark wrote: ↑Sun Apr 28, 2024 5:52 pm

CoronadosQuest wrote: ↑Sun Apr 28, 2024 5:30 pm

stark wrote: ↑Sun Apr 28, 2024 5:09 pm After the first 4F, a fast pace..... would you believe.....

https://twitter.com/HorseToWatch/status ... 08/photo/1

I don't know if I see Just A Touch leading the field but I could be wrong.

Well, Brisnet agrees with TimeformUS from the BlueGrass, they've got him with 103/112 speed figures leading the field, so who am I to argue?

stark wrote: ↑Sun Apr 28, 2024 6:55 pm
Brother in law lives there, will get confirmation soon.
But in the meantime, I'm guessing your best bet is on this list....
https://www.yelp.com/search?cflt=sports ... C+UT+84095

p.s. NO betting!!!!

Katewerk wrote: ↑Sun Apr 28, 2024 8:24 pm

stark wrote: ↑Sun Apr 28, 2024 6:55 pm
Brother in law lives there, will get confirmation soon.
But in the meantime, I'm guessing your best bet is on this list....
https://www.yelp.com/search?cflt=sports ... C+UT+84095

p.s. NO betting!!!!

Hey thanks, I sent a message to one of the sports bars. I thought the wagering thing was a long shot, given ... Utah.

“I wish no ill fate on anybody. I hope they all get there because they deserve to be there,” said Jeff Ennis, trainer of Epic Ride. “If something unforeseen happens, we’ll be ready to go. If he gets in great. I won’t be disappointed or angry if we don’t get in. It just wasn’t my time.”

Some of the main issues Repole has railed against, aside from his claims that the sport is "broken" due to poor leadership at the very top of it, are the inner workings of 2-year-old sales. He has also advocated for increased funding for Thoroughbred aftercare programs.

"The end user has been getting screwed," Repole said. "By the time some young horses get to a trainer, they have probably had some form of corrective surgery. They went to a yearling sale and wound up with a pinhooker who tried to get him to walk like a show horse. They buy the horse for $70,000 and they do whatever it takes to get him to run a furlong in nine seconds and change at a 2-year-old sale so they can get $700,000 for him. By then the trainer gets a horse with three legs. Fierceness is the healthiest horse we have because he was a homebred. Nothing was ever done to him."

At the behest of a follower on X, Repole said he would not bid on any of the horses that breezed before the OBS March Sale of 2-Year-Olds in Training, focusing solely on juveniles that merely galloped.

Repole has also bristled at resistance over fees to fund aftercare programs.

"If anyone does not like the idea of paying a small fee for aftercare on the purchase of a million-dollar horse, they should get out of the sport," he said. "We don't need them."

Tessablue wrote: ↑Mon Apr 29, 2024 2:17 pm And this is totally unrelated, but I hadn't realized that West Saratoga has a bloody shoulder (https://twitter.com/ABRLive/status/1784928790306525347). Very cool, I can't remember seeing a Derby horse with that marking!