2024 PREAKNESS STAKES
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Curtis
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Missbeholder
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There's no thread dedicated to the Black-Eyed Susan Stakes, and I'm certainly not going to start one now. I just really want to know how Pimlico came up with a name like 100 years ago for its companion to the Kentucky Oaks for a flower that was out of season when the race was run, and for all these years, has had to fabricate a winner's garland where the flowers are literally painted to look like black-eyed Susan's when the damn f!lowers don't bloom until 2 or 3 months later! Well, that was a run-on sentence if I ever saw one!
Anyway, I just don't get it......never have and never will!
Anyway, I just don't get it......never have and never will!
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Flanders
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Google says: Originally ran as the Pimlico Oaks, it was renamed in 1952 to acknowledge Maryland's state flower.Missbeholder wrote: ↑Fri May 17, 2024 10:26 pm There's no thread dedicated to the Black-Eyed Susan Stakes, and I'm certainly not going to start one now. I just really want to know how Pimlico came up with a name like 100 years ago for its companion to the Kentucky Oaks for a flower that was out of season when the race was run, and for all these years, has had to fabricate a winner's garland where the flowers are literally painted to look like black-eyed Susan's when the damn f!lowers don't bloom until 2 or 3 months later! Well, that was a run-on sentence if I ever saw one!
Anyway, I just don't get it......never have and never will!
I would guess that is why the garland of flowers for the Preakness is also fake Black Eyed Susans. I had to look at what Kentucky's state flower was and can you imagine them making a blanket of golden rods for the winner?
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stark
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Double will pays.....Tuscan Gold will be the favorite?
For $2 tickets that had favored Gun Song winning Friday's first leg,
Tuscan Gold will pay $30.00 if he were to win the Preakness.
Catching Freedom is next at $30.60
followed by Imagination at $34.20,
Mystik Dan at $35.20,
Just Steel at $98.00,
Seize the Grey at $114.40,
Uncle Heavy at $204.60
and Mugatu at $708.40.
For $2 tickets that had favored Gun Song winning Friday's first leg,
Tuscan Gold will pay $30.00 if he were to win the Preakness.
Catching Freedom is next at $30.60
followed by Imagination at $34.20,
Mystik Dan at $35.20,
Just Steel at $98.00,
Seize the Grey at $114.40,
Uncle Heavy at $204.60
and Mugatu at $708.40.
I've found it easier to tear up tickets at 8/1 instead of 8/5.
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stark
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Race 3 coming up in 10 minutes....
Baffert sends a 0/4 maiden across country
to run against winners in an allowance race
Adds Lasix
Off the layoff since September
and the public bets him down to 6/5
no thanks, even if your name is Mirahmadi and you like pizza.
Baffert sends a 0/4 maiden across country
to run against winners in an allowance race
Adds Lasix
Off the layoff since September
and the public bets him down to 6/5
no thanks, even if your name is Mirahmadi and you like pizza.
I've found it easier to tear up tickets at 8/1 instead of 8/5.
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CoronadosQuest
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I honestly didnt even realize Mirahmadi hadn't broken his maiden yet I just remember his second place in the Del Mar Futurity (G1). He is such a handsome horse, its a shame he isn't faster than he is.
I just remember his second place in the Del Mar Futurity (G1). He is such a handsome horse, its a shame he isn't faster than he is.
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CoronadosQuest
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Well that race could not have went any worse for him. Guess he is now 0/5
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Cigarillo
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I'll add the Heavyweight boxing unification fight. Winner will be the first unified champion since Lennox Lewis in 1999.
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stark
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Shohei Ohtani is due to hit another homerun against the Reds, go Dodgers!
I've found it easier to tear up tickets at 8/1 instead of 8/5.
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Curtis
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Hey I was at Chavez Ravine when Ohtani broke the record for MLB HR’s by a Japanese born player. All those in attendance when Hank Aaron hit #715 or Barry Bonds hit #756* got nuthin’ on me.
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CoronadosQuest
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