Will "Will Take Charge" Take Charge in the Stephen Foster?

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-Keelerman — Wed, 18 Jun 2014 01:54:12 GMT

Well, one day of racing at Royal Ascot is in the history books! I was very pleased to see Verrazano perform so well in the Queen Anne Stakes, finishing second by just three-quarters of a length behind Toronado. I was also thrilled to see Hootenanny win the Windsor Castle Stakes for Wesley Ward and Victor Espinoza.

But as exciting as today's races may have been, day two of Royal Ascot promises to be even better. Will Treve rebound from the first defeat of her career with a victory in the Prince of Wales's Stakes? Here are my thoughts on the race: cs.bloodhorse.com/.../will-treve-rebound-at-royal-ascot.aspx

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Brontexx — Tue, 17 Jun 2014 16:15:00 GMT

Rusty Weisner Ring Weekend? when they scratched Uncle Sigh I knew it was easy pickins.BTW Albano was 2-1 and RW was the favorite for most of the wagering a big bettor dropped a wad on the captain, or the tracks tote system didnt post it until less than five minutes to race.It happens a lot, when I learned to beat this game in 2010 and played daily I learned so much about this business that they call horseracing.

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Rusty Weisner — Tue, 17 Jun 2014 15:26:25 GMT

I'm sorry I missed the $4.60 Albano in the five-horse Pegasus field. It took genius to beat Ring Weekend there.

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Pedigree Ann — Tue, 17 Jun 2014 12:02:50 GMT

This is the way the Brit announcers have been speaking of big, muscle-y horses like Verrazano - "Looks like Tarzan, runs like Jane." A few were impressed by his turf debut, but most were not, although they expect him to come on for it, just not enough to beat a horse like Toronado.

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Pedigree Ann — Tue, 17 Jun 2014 09:40:17 GMT

I will certainly be watching Royal Ascot; already have watched the Channel 4 program "Morning Line" at 8am and now have Racing UK, which started at 10am. Right now, its being a 'lovefest' where jocks and trainers saying how important it is to them to race at Royal Ascot. Previously, attheraces (the other racing network) had exclusive rights to Ascot racing all year long, so this is a big deal for Racing UK.

Weather forecast for both islands for the rest of the week looks pretty good - high pressure in control, it's sunny today in No. Ireland and also in Berkshire. Isolated spots of rain are expected to pop up randomly so keep fingers crossed.

Verrazano was beaten comprehensively by Olympic Glory, who hacked in, in the Lockinge. More damning is that the G3/handcapper Tullius also beat him, relegating him to third place. The straight mile at Ascot is a stiff one, downhill at the start, then over a rise between the 6f and 4f poles, then uphill for the last half-mile. Takes a nimble horse to keep its balance over the up-and-down and one with guts to keep on up the hill, with no easy patches on the turns to get a breather. I don't know if Verrazano is best suited to this sort of course. The big ones that run well on flat courses can't always deal with undulations as well. We shall see.

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-Keelerman — Tue, 17 Jun 2014 02:47:45 GMT

Monarchos Matt, Congratulations on your score with Moonshine Mullin in the Stephen Foster! 10-1 in the win pool and 7-2 in the place pool -- great job!

After watching the Shoemaker Mile and reviewing the chart, I'm not sure which fact is more surprising -- the fact that Jack Milton went off at lower odds than Winning Prize (I really didn't see that coming) or the fact that Winning Prize -- a grade I winner at Santa Anita! -- was absolutely run off his feet by Obviously. I mean, I thought Obviously could beat Winning Prize, but I didn't expect to see Obviously set the fractions that he did, draw off in the stretch, and hang on to win while Winning Prize retreated to finish next-to-last. It just goes to show what a spectacular performance Wise Dan unleashed in the 2012 Breeders' Cup Mile, when he tracked Obviously all the way around and then reeled him in like it was a walk in the park...

Brontexx, that was a nice call on Albano in the Pegasus Stakes! That was a very impressive performance by a colt that may be on the verge of making some major noise this summer.

Will anyone be watching the races at Royal Ascot tomorrow morning? I'm really looking forward to seeing Verrazano take on Toronado and Soft Falling Rain in the Queen Anne Stakes. But the best matchup of the day may come in the St James's Palace Stakes, in which Kingman, Night of Thunder, Outstrip, Toormore, and War Command will all battle for the title of leading three-year-old miler. It should be a terrific race!

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Little Bill — Tue, 17 Jun 2014 02:27:08 GMT

LMAO, what's really goin' on?

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Brontexx — Mon, 16 Jun 2014 19:36:46 GMT

You were the one that wrote I should post more picks and less banter now look whos writing

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Brontexx — Mon, 16 Jun 2014 19:35:41 GMT

Rusty Weisner If you would have been in the moment on this blog instead of writing names back and forth with PLod Boy you would have gotten Albano in the Pegasus and not live in the past with a pic 4 you wouldnt have played.

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Rusty Weisner — Mon, 16 Jun 2014 16:05:43 GMT

Columnist Ed DeRose (upstairs) picked this $5700-2 P4. Go take a look. Quite a handicapping opus.

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Brontexx — Sun, 15 Jun 2014 21:53:02 GMT

Thats the way to win by 5 or 6

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Brontexx — Sun, 15 Jun 2014 21:25:06 GMT

Albano win place in the Pegasus

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Rusty Weisner — Sun, 15 Jun 2014 21:16:24 GMT

From soup to nuts.

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Brontexx — Sun, 15 Jun 2014 18:05:34 GMT

Plod baby boldly done hit the nail on the head

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Plod Boy Phil — Sun, 15 Jun 2014 17:15:19 GMT

Revolutionary was 30 back at the first call at Pimlico -what was different yesterday ?

Perhaps big figures achieved under perfect scenarios are difficult to repeat under less Xtreme circumstances.

Give credit where it's due.....or continue with incoherent ramblings.

Soups on.

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Brontexx — Sun, 15 Jun 2014 15:38:40 GMT

RE Long River someone is reading something that is not there either in the PPs or speed figures.Long River won a couple of ungraded stakes and his odds dropped from 15-1 to 5-1.The winner Monshine Mullins won a G2 his last race at the same track and the odds on him where 10-1 inefficient indeed.

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Brontexx — Sun, 15 Jun 2014 15:34:50 GMT

Rusty Weisner the spirits of dead clowns might have whispered that Revolutionary and Prayer for Relief would go off,but actually only the Prayer went off Revo got too far behind and his late sustained drive couldnt even get him into the money.

If anyone thinks that you can look at PPs for any graded race and pick out the horses that have been off the least amount of time 29 days in this case, and thus determine that they will go off form well then they got a few screws loose.Then again that is what I would expect from the same.

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Rusty Weisner — Sun, 15 Jun 2014 13:56:55 GMT

KY VET, the horse whisperer, said Revolutionary and Prayer for Relief were going off. Looked right to me.

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Rusty Weisner — Sun, 15 Jun 2014 13:53:47 GMT

I was going to bet Departing, who I thought was the third best 3-yo left standing last year. Didn't have the stomach for the races, though. Glad I didn't! Moonshine Mullin shouldn't have been 10-1; after he beat me last month I probably would have respected him and made my pain worse by playing an exacta.

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Pedigree Ann — Sun, 15 Jun 2014 11:11:26 GMT

I didn't post pre-races because we were busy over here going to a Pipe Band competition. For the whole UK even. Kilts and knee socks everywhere. There were even competitions for the drum majors who carry a 'mace' and it does look like a deadly weapon; the juniors (kids down to 6-8) carried downsized ones. Good thing I like bagpipe music because it was coming from 5 directions at once.

As to these races, much as I love On Fire Baby and her mommy Ornate, I know she doesn't run best at 9f. 1 1/16, yes, but with her sprinting sire, she just doesn't get any further.

I see plenty of folks still don't believe what they read (and reading is useful for us folks far away from the tracks) about Rise Up. Minor tracks, bullrings? - great; real 8f ovals against better horses? - no bueno.

Will Take Charge is too big for his own good. He probably has intermittent ankle trouble, like Forego and Point Given had - should have been cut before he got so big. Big-striding horse like he is would probably do best at Belmont, where he doesn't have to deal with sharp turns like Churchill's. Easy Goer, another big one, certainly liked Belmont best.

How about that tour-de-force by Obviously? :22.06 44.50 1:08.03 1:20.11 1:32.55. And the mile course isn't downhill, either. The California drought must be limiting the amount of water the track can use to keep the grass growing, because it is a speedway right now. His Aussie sire was a serious speed demon who won twice at a single Royal Ascot meeting (a G1 and a G2) while still a 3yo, although weighted as a 4yo because of NH conventions.

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Brontexx — Sun, 15 Jun 2014 07:29:51 GMT

To make more money than you lose you gotta know when to pass a race its not all about being right its about to use an anology from another game of chance you gotta know when to hold them and when to fold them.

KY Vet you are funny but you suck at this game.

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JayJay — Sun, 15 Jun 2014 05:45:45 GMT

I'll say it again, WTC will probably not win another race with Stevens on the saddle...

KY Vet : What was the "YOU'RE WELCOME" for ?

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JayJay — Sun, 15 Jun 2014 05:39:36 GMT

I guess I'm a pro, I said Long River will go off form...just about the only thing I got right at Churchill Downs lol.

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KY VET — Sun, 15 Jun 2014 02:16:53 GMT

YOURE WELCOME!

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Brontexx — Sun, 15 Jun 2014 01:55:56 GMT

Correction Monarchos Matt did pick the winner congradulations.