| Your Preakness Stakes Boasts and Tears Here
Posted: 5/18/2007 7:30:47 PM | I'm still high on Hard Spun for the Preakness.
Official off-time is 6:09 pm Eastern Saturday.
Who do you like?
Will Hard Spun turn the tables on Street Sense? Will the latter take it on another hopeful bid for the Triple Crown sweep? Will Curlin curl up, or will he move forward and score? Will a newcomer (King Of The Roxy?) do some damage? | |
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| Your Preakness Stakes Boasts and Tears Here
Posted: 5/18/2007 10:15:56 PM | Hard Spun
Street Sense
Curlin
Hard Spun by 1/2 length. I think Hard Spun will move out quickly and be hard to catch. Curlin could be a distant third in this race. | |
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| Your Preakness Stakes Boasts and Tears Here
Posted: 5/19/2007 1:40:51 PM | Just popping in for a minute (got four tracks on the go).
How bizarre is this? Michael Matz, trainer of Barbaro, who of course tragically broke down during last year's Preakness, just won the first edition of the Barbaro Stakes on Pimlico's undercard. And Prado (Barbaro's jock) rode the second-place finisher.
Speed's been holding up well so far on the card, which augers well for Hard Spun. | |
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| Your Preakness Stakes Boasts and Tears Here
Posted: 5/19/2007 3:36:29 PM | Not sure if this is correct: results posted 4 min ago:
Curlin by a nose over Street Sense. Photo finish, official results not yet public.
Not sure who placed third (Hard Spun?).
Of interest: Five yr old stallion, Mending Fences, was euthanized in a pre-Stakes race after breaking down on the course (broken right front canon bone). If Pimlico hasn't changed to an artificial surface, they will now. I wonder if there will be legal investigation of the present surface. | |
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| Your Preakness Stakes Boasts and Tears Here
Posted: 5/19/2007 4:01:02 PM | Yes, Curlin by a nose.
Curlin
Street Sense
Hard Spun
Didn't see the break down of Mending Fences. It happens from time to time, unfortunately, no matter what the circumstances. More to do with the preponderance of bred-in infirmities with the modern race horse rather than with hard surfaces, though much has been done to lessen catastrophic injuries in the past year or so by way of widespread implementation of Polytrack surfaces at many tracks. Polytrack, a synthetic mix of sand, mulch, rubber, and assorted elements, has more give and bounce for horses pounding it on their naturally spindly front legs, and injuries, fatal and otherwise, are down at those race tracks who use it.
Belmont up next in three weeks. It isn't unusual to see many newcomers entered who've avoided the stresses of the Triple Crown chase to this point. Some are talented, and much fresher than the Kentucky Derby/Preakness combatants, and more than a few have won in the past. | |
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| Your Preakness Stakes Boasts and Tears Here
Posted: 5/19/2007 4:12:57 PM | I looked at the photo finish images very carefully. I don't see Curlin by a nose. I see a dead tie - not sure what the judges used for the call, maybe its the image angle.
I called the results *backwards* (laughing) Nice riding, a really close race. | |
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| Your Preakness Stakes Boasts and Tears Here
Posted: 5/19/2007 7:08:35 PM | curlin ran a hell of a race. in the overhead shot he definitely won. great charge by steet sense, though. he thought he had finished, it looked like just before curlin's closing kick. does anyone else think that borel may have made his move too late?
great race. and everyone came home safely.
i understood the earlier breakdown happened on grass. that could be wrong, though. | |
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| Your Preakness Stakes Boasts and Tears Here
Posted: 5/19/2007 7:32:31 PM | Yes, just checked the result charts. Mending Fences ran in a middle-distance Grade 2 grass race. No sign of anything untoward until the breakdown. He'd shown excellent consistency before, so no earlier signs of physical problems.
No, can't blame Borel. Curlin just ran Street Sense down in the last stride.
29 years since a Crown sweep (and counting). | |
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