The 2024 Kentucky Derby Pool Contest- Results are up!
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Hello everyone, you know what time it is! Forget the Oaks and Derby week pageantry, it's time for something far more celebrated and prestigious: another edition of the Derby Pool Contest, a TBC tradition originally founded by The Shadow. Will anyone dethrone Mylute, our Greatest Handicapper of All Time of All Time, who has won two years running? Only one way to find out!
The rules are as follows:
1. Select one horse from each of the pools listed below. Pools are chosen on the basis of the morning line and my own imperfect judgment. Please forgive.
2. When you post, please note your predicted margin of victory and final time. These will be used as tiebreakers.
3. Feel free to edit selections up until five minutes before post time, but please do make a post noting any changes so that I don't miss them.
4. Points will be awarded if any of your choices finish in the top 6, on a scale of 30-20-15-10-5-1
5. Winner gets the title of Greatest Handicapper of All Time for exactly one year! Our current reigning champion is Mylute, who made Derby history last year by defending her title.
Pool A
Fierceness
Sierra Leone
Forever Young
Catching Freedom
Pool B
Just a Touch
Stronghold
Resilience
Pool C
Just Steel
Mystik Dan
Dornoch
Track Phantom
Pool D
Honor Marie
T O Password
Endlessly
Domestic Product
Pool E
Society Man
Catalytic
West Saratoga
Grand Mo the First
Epic Ride
Enjoy!
The rules are as follows:
1. Select one horse from each of the pools listed below. Pools are chosen on the basis of the morning line and my own imperfect judgment. Please forgive.
2. When you post, please note your predicted margin of victory and final time. These will be used as tiebreakers.
3. Feel free to edit selections up until five minutes before post time, but please do make a post noting any changes so that I don't miss them.
4. Points will be awarded if any of your choices finish in the top 6, on a scale of 30-20-15-10-5-1
5. Winner gets the title of Greatest Handicapper of All Time for exactly one year! Our current reigning champion is Mylute, who made Derby history last year by defending her title.
Pool A
Fierceness
Sierra Leone
Forever Young
Catching Freedom
Pool B
Just a Touch
Stronghold
Resilience
Pool C
Just Steel
Mystik Dan
Dornoch
Track Phantom
Pool D
Honor Marie
T O Password
Endlessly
Domestic Product
Pool E
Society Man
Catalytic
West Saratoga
Grand Mo the First
Epic Ride
Enjoy!
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the moment i've been waiting for all year.
except this year i haven't watched USA racing at all so 99% of these names are ?????? to me. anyways, expect my pools tomorrow night/Monday. and my mom's too, hope yours participates this year as well, Tessa!
except this year i haven't watched USA racing at all so 99% of these names are ?????? to me. anyways, expect my pools tomorrow night/Monday. and my mom's too, hope yours participates this year as well, Tessa!
i like plushies. a lot.
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Pool A
Forever Young
Pool B
Stronghold
Pool C
Dornoch
Pool D
T O Password
Pool E
West Saratoga
2'02"10
1 1/2 length
Forever Young
Pool B
Stronghold
Pool C
Dornoch
Pool D
T O Password
Pool E
West Saratoga
2'02"10
1 1/2 length
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It’s the most wonderful time of the year!
Pool A
Sierra Leone
Pool B
Stronghold
Pool C
Dornoch
Pool D
T O Password
Pool E
West Saratoga
Neck - 2.03.50
Pool A
Sierra Leone
Pool B
Stronghold
Pool C
Dornoch
Pool D
T O Password
Pool E
West Saratoga
Neck - 2.03.50
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"until you go to Kentucky and with your own eyes behold the Derby, you ain't never been nowhere and you ain't seen nothing!"
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Pool A
Sierra Leone
Pool B
Stronghold
Pool C
Just Steel
Pool D
Domestic Product
Pool E
West Saratoga
2'01"28
2 1/2 lengths
Sierra Leone
Pool B
Stronghold
Pool C
Just Steel
Pool D
Domestic Product
Pool E
West Saratoga
2'01"28
2 1/2 lengths
- CoronadosQuest
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This is so hard (mostly Pool A )
Pool A
Forever Young
Pool B
Just a Touch
Pool C
Just Steel
Pool D
Honor Marie
Pool E
Society Man
Final Time: 2:01.15
Margin: 1 1/2 lengths
ETA: changed Pool B at the scratch of Encino
Pool A
Forever Young
Pool B
Just a Touch
Pool C
Just Steel
Pool D
Honor Marie
Pool E
Society Man
Final Time: 2:01.15
Margin: 1 1/2 lengths
ETA: changed Pool B at the scratch of Encino
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i'll send my mom's once we have the time to sit down together and i show her the PPs .
here's mine:
Pool A Catching Freedom
Pool B Resilience
Pool C Track Phantom
Pool D Endlessly
Pool E West Saratoga
2½ lengths
2:01.40
here's mine:
Pool A Catching Freedom
Pool B Resilience
Pool C Track Phantom
Pool D Endlessly
Pool E West Saratoga
2½ lengths
2:01.40
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i like plushies. a lot.
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Pool A
Forever Young
Pool B
Resilience
Pool C
Dornoch
Pool D
Honor Marie
Pool E
Society Man
2:01.40
2 1/4 lengths
Forever Young
Pool B
Resilience
Pool C
Dornoch
Pool D
Honor Marie
Pool E
Society Man
2:01.40
2 1/4 lengths
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Pool A
Fierceness
Pool B
Just a Touch
Pool C
Just Steel
Pool D
Honor Marie
Pool E
West Saratoga
2:01
2 lengths
Fierceness
Pool B
Just a Touch
Pool C
Just Steel
Pool D
Honor Marie
Pool E
West Saratoga
2:01
2 lengths
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Pool A
Forever Young
Pool B
Stronghold
Pool C
Mystik Dan
Pool D
Endlessly
Pool E
Catalytic
2:00.4
2 1/4 lengths
Forever Young
Pool B
Stronghold
Pool C
Mystik Dan
Pool D
Endlessly
Pool E
Catalytic
2:00.4
2 1/4 lengths
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oh I'm 100% getting dethroned this year.
As I type, I am fixing my mother's hat and listening to some handicapping videos. Having to play catchup this year. It's just after 9 PM where I'm at. This time next week I will probably have been home for about an hour after driving home from the trip.
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A - Forever Young
B - Stronghold
C - Just Steel
D - Endlessly
E - Catalytic
2:02 2/5 by a neck
B - Stronghold
C - Just Steel
D - Endlessly
E - Catalytic
2:02 2/5 by a neck
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So exciting, though! I hope you have a great time. And in the unlikely event that you do get dethroned, you've got a great built-in excuse
Oh yes, we will definitely have another battle of the moms! Neither of us has had a chance to sit down and really figure out our picks, but you can count on it.
Pretty sure I completely whiffed on Honor Marie's placement here, his final odds will probably put him in Pool B instead of Pool D... oh well. Enjoy the freebie, everyone