Bloodhorse – Angst – Derma Sotogake, Continuar Aim to Make Derby History
A man cannot divide his attention at the track between horses and women.
Pittsburgh Phil
TIF Derby Prop Contest Racing Charities
Bloodhorse – Meet the Field for the 149th Kentucky Derby
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America’s Best Racing – Ehalt – Which 2023 Kentucky Derby Runners Would Benefit from a Wet Track?
Bloodhorse – Stafford – The Dirt on Kentucky Derby Mudders
The Ringer – Ruiz – What, Exactly, Is the Detroit Lions’ Plan?
Life Moves Pretty Fast. If You Don’t Stop And Look Around Once In A While, You Could Miss It.
Ferris Bueller
Dorth Vader, a John Ropes Florida homebred returns in the Kentucky Oaks on Friday, May 5, 2023 at Churchill Downs. The Oaks has drawn an overflow field and is one of the more competitive in recent years. Dorth Vader is by Girvin (Tale of Ekati) out of the Yonaguska mare Hardcore Candy who was campaigned in Alberta by Darrell Landry and then Amber Buniak and Ryan McLean. Hardcore Candy won 8 races from 40 starts with 8 seconds and 4 thirds, earning $101,308. She was Stakes placed in the Freedom of the City Stakes (Black Type) at Northlands Park.
Over at Oaklawn Park Arnold Bennewith, Rick Wiest, Clayton Wiest, Lana Wiest, Randy Howg, R6 Stables (Tim Rollingson et al), Gary Kropp and Norman Tremblay’s 2022 Canadian Derby Winner Great Escape steps back up to stake company in the Lake Ouachita Stake for $150,000US on Friday May 5, 2023. Trained by Robertino Diodoro, Francisco Arrieta will be in the saddle.
Bloodhorse – Jay Hovdey – Student of the Game Vazquez Proves Quick Study
The farther away you writers stay, the better I like it. You know why? Because you’re trying to create a bad image of me… you do it because I’m black and Puerto Rican, but I’m proud to be Puerto Rican.
Roberto Clemente
Garden and Gun – Paige N. Miller – The Most Interesting Race of Derby Week
SportsNet – Luke Fox – ‘A quicker pace’: Maple Leafs dealing with a whole new animal in Round 2
Phil caught the odd glimpse of the Leafs – Panthers game while handicapping Friday’s Kentucky Oaks and a couple of sports quotes started to percolate in Phil’s mind.
If they think we’ve got an edge, we’ve got an edge.
Red Auerbach
Even the headline for Fox’s little blurb gives the edge to the whole new animal. The Panthers have invaded the Leafs’ heads and to borrow from Yogi how can the Leafs think, skate, hit and shoot at the same time. The Leafs need to take a page out of Evander Kane’s playbook and find someone to get into the Turtle’s head like Kane did in the 2022 NHL playoffs where the Turtle disappeared.
If you can’t beat ’em in the alley, you can’t beat ’em on the ice.
Conn Smythe
In the last minute of play when Sam Bennett pitchforked Ryan O’Reilly opening up a cut on O’Reilly’s face that the blind as a bat referees missed on the ice and had to go to review it seemed that the only thing the Leafs learned from Matthew Tkachuk was how to turtle. Not a single Leaf came to the aid of O’Reilly and took Bennett to task with both Tavares and Matthews standing around watching clouds float by instead of getting in Bennett’s face. And their coach was standing on the bench watching the clouds float by instead of jumping on the boards and giving the refs a piece of his mind with his Punch McLean impression.
The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
George S. Patton
Phil has a question:
Do the Leafs know the difference between the Lady Byng and the Conn Smythe.
Did Bobby Clarke ever win the Lady Byng.
Back to handicapping. Friday’s Oaks and the first Saturday in May’s Derby are a couple of extremely close races. Phil uses Brisnet PPs and the first thing that Phil always does is look at the Prime Power numbers to separate the horses with a difference of 3 being Phil’s benchmark. There’s only a difference of 8.1 for the top 11 in the Oaks and 13.8 from top to bottom. When the numbers are that close anything can strike. The Derby is just as tough. Forte’s number puts him a touch above the rest, but then there’s only 14 points for the next 20. Your work is cut out for you so don’t shirk.
Look for defect in your own calculating rather than cheating of others.
Pittsburgh Phil
Paulick Report – Maday – Canterbury Park Completes Sale Of 37 Acres For Entertainment Amphitheater
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Nautilus – Kelleher – The Strange Life of Glass
Speed provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.
Aldous Huxley
The appeal of horse racing: “I really love the psychology of racing. Who starts in the lead, how you finish, holding on, watching one horse fly past another? And why it happens. Racing is really fun to me. The horses are beautiful and amazing. So there’s a lot to like with horse racing in general. Plus, I like dressing up, which is fun. So does my wife.”
Front Office Sports – McCarthy – Insider Ian Rapoport Is Chasing NFL News and a Kentucky Derby Dream
Bloodhorse – Karen M Johnson – On the Rise: Danielle Bricker
Speed is a great asset; but it’s greater when it’s combined with quickness – and there’s a big difference.
Ty Cobb
TDN – Sherack – Tuesday’s Kentucky Derby Report: Trio of Breezers Bring the Morning ‘Thunder’
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Pitch me outside, I will hit .400. Pitch me inside, and you will not find the ball.
Roberto Clemente
Bloodhorse – Gash – Woodford Thoroughbreds Breeder of Oaks, Derby Hopefuls
I do not need a trophy to tell myself that I am the best.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic
Paulick Report – Rees – Albaugh’s ‘Heart Will Be A-Pumpin’ With Two Colts In Kentucky Derby
Bloodhorse – Eric Mitchell and Angst – From Eye of the Storm to the Kentucky Derby
It’s not bragging if you can back it up.
Muhammad Ali
Kentucky Derby
PP | Horse | Trainer | Jockey | Odds |
1 | Hit Show | Brad H Cox | Manuel Franco | 30 – 1 |
2 | Verifying | Brad H Cox | Tyler Gaffalione | 15 – 1 |
3 | Two Phil’s | Larry Rivelli | Jareth Loveberry | 12 – 1 |
4 | Confidence Game | Keith Desormeaux | James Graham | 20 – 1 |
5 | Tapit Trice | Todd Pletcher | Luiz Saez | 5 – 1 |
6 | Kingsbarns | Todd Pletcher | Jose Ortiz | 12 – 1 |
7 | Reincarnate | Tim Yakten | John R Velazquez | 50 – 1 |
8 | Mage | Gustavo Delgado | Javier Castellano | 15 – 1 |
9 | Skinner | John Shireffs | Juan Hernandez | 20 – 1 |
10 | Practical Move | Tim Yakten | Ramon Vasquez | 10 – 1 |
11 | Disarm | Steve Assmussen | Joel Rosario | 30 -1 |
12 | Jace’s Road | Brad H Cox | Florent Geroux | 15 – 1 |
13 | Sun Thunder | Ken McPeek | Brian Hernandez Jr. | 30 – 1 |
14 | Angel of Empire | Brad H Cox | Flavien Prat | 8 – 1 |
15 | Forte | Todd Pletcher | Irad Ortiz Jr. | 3 – 1 |
16 | Raise Cain | Ben Colebrook | Gerado Corrales | 50 – 1 |
17 | Derma Sotogake (JPN) | Hidetaka Otonashi | Christophe Lemaire | 10 – 1 |
18 | Rocket Can | William Mott | Junior Alvarado | 15 – 1 |
19 | Lord Miles | Joseph A Saffie Jr. | Paco Lopez | 15 – 1 |
20 | Continuar | Yoshito Yahagi | Ryusei Sakai | 50 – 1 |
AE | Cyclone Mischief | Dale Romans | Joel Rosario | 30 – 1 |
AE | Mandarin Hero | Terunobu Fujita | Kazushi Kimura | 20 – 1 |
AE | King Russell | Ron Moquett | Rafael Bejarano | 50 – 1 |
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Vote early and vote often.
Al Capone
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XBTV – Jeff Siegel’s Kentucky Derby Deluxe Dozen (updated 4/14/23)
Paulick Report – Champagne – The Derby Bubble Presented By Kentucky-Breds: The Waiting Game Begins
Horse Racing Nation – Kentucky Derby 2023 Contenders
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Phil M Stockmen
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