Jim Dandy field

[Brisk Urging]

Jim Dandy: 1 Western River. 2 Epicenter 3 Tawny Port 4 Early Voting 5 Zandon


Small but solid field

[PalaceOfFortLarned]

Small field, but contains 3 of the major players in the 3YO division, and one looking to move up into the top tier (Tawny Port).

Race could go a long ways in deciding the pecking order in the division with Mo Donegal on the bench.

Early Voting looks to have a strong pace advantage much like he did in the Preakness. However, everybody can see that including Rosario on Epicenter.

Have to believe both Epicenter and Zandon will be closer than normal and not allow EV to walk on the front. Tawny Port is who he is, and will undoubtedly be sitting back early.

Looks like a jockey race to me.

[PalaceOfFortLarned]

Disappointing race from Early Voting. Really no excuse not to close that race out.

Epicenter showed his class while enduring yet another sluggish start. Looks to be the tops in the division heading into the Travers. Solid time when all is said and done on what has been a deep and tiring track this meet.

[ScottJ]

Originally Posted by PalaceOfFortLarned

Disappointing race from Early Voting. Really no excuse not to close that race out.

Epicenter showed his class while enduring yet another sluggish start. Looks to be the tops in the division heading into the Travers. Solid time when all is said and done on what has been a deep and tiring track this meet.

Saw a very interesting comparison worth considering. In 2017, Cloud Computing had a similar trajectory to Early Voting winning the Preakness and coming back in the Jim Dandy. Ironically, Cloud Computing ran terribly that day and never hit the board again in his three- and four-year-old seasons.

https://www.equibase.com/profiles/Re...686&registry=T

[PalaceOfFortLarned]

Originally Posted by ScottJ

Saw a very interesting comparison worth considering. In 2017, Cloud Computing had a similar trajectory to Early Voting winning the Preakness and coming back in the Jim Dandy. Ironically, Cloud Computing ran terribly that day and never hit the board again in his three- and four-year-old seasons.

https://www.equibase.com/profiles/Re...686&registry=T

That is an interesting comparison with the same connections. CC hadn't ran a bad race till the Jim Dandy either.

Feel EV is better bred, but that is certainly some food for thought. I'll actually be surprised if Chad runs EV in the Travers though. Maybe the Penn Derby next for EV?

[classhandicapper]

Chad may not have as many options for the Travers as we thought a few weeks ago.