boys at tosconova
04-17-2017, 08:47 PM
no wood memorial horse has finished 2nd or better since 2003.
http://www.paceadvantage.com/forum/showthread.php?p=2147448#post2147448
that's pretty alarming for me and it wasn't until last year i started researching it because i found myself using many wood horses over those years. sometime multiple horses. and all i have to show for it is hundreds of dollars of losing tickets.
think about how many sharp wood horses entered the derby during those years. to say that you haven't used any of these horses or lost using them is lol
alpha, gemologist, normandy invasion, verazano, vyjack, wicked strong, frosted...etc, etc..i'm sure this goes on with even more equally playable horses that entered in the KD. this list doesn't even count the ny horses that went somewhere other than the wood as well. i don't know if that's potentially good or even worse.
will irish war cry and/or battalion runner break the curse and finish at least 2nd?
thing is these really aren't ny horses. and while bat run started in ny he had higher aspirations and wasn't kept here. el areeb is off the trail so we only have these two and j boys...and since j boys went to kee he's really doesn't count
regardless of what happens this year, what really left an indelible image in my mind was irish war cry bouncing back w/ a win and raja looking over his shoulder while pulling away.
it was hard enough for me to claim victory while not using outwork last year. it would take big ones to leave off IWC
http://www.paceadvantage.com/forum/showthread.php?p=2147448#post2147448
that's pretty alarming for me and it wasn't until last year i started researching it because i found myself using many wood horses over those years. sometime multiple horses. and all i have to show for it is hundreds of dollars of losing tickets.
think about how many sharp wood horses entered the derby during those years. to say that you haven't used any of these horses or lost using them is lol
alpha, gemologist, normandy invasion, verazano, vyjack, wicked strong, frosted...etc, etc..i'm sure this goes on with even more equally playable horses that entered in the KD. this list doesn't even count the ny horses that went somewhere other than the wood as well. i don't know if that's potentially good or even worse.
will irish war cry and/or battalion runner break the curse and finish at least 2nd?
thing is these really aren't ny horses. and while bat run started in ny he had higher aspirations and wasn't kept here. el areeb is off the trail so we only have these two and j boys...and since j boys went to kee he's really doesn't count
regardless of what happens this year, what really left an indelible image in my mind was irish war cry bouncing back w/ a win and raja looking over his shoulder while pulling away.
it was hard enough for me to claim victory while not using outwork last year. it would take big ones to leave off IWC