March 22 The Spiral Stakes

[tanner12oz]

March 22 The Spiral Stakes

tamarando
Harry holiday
almost famous
coastline
we miss artie
Pablo del monte
solitary ranger

probables I'm seeing nothing confirmed

[letswastemoney]

We Miss Artie wins this one and then helps the Ramseys enter another overmatched horse in the Derby.

[tanner12oz]

I kinda like him..has the pedigree and the resume to make it work on the poly

[Leparoux]

Spiral winner has performed pretty well in the Derby in the last couple of tries (scratched last year). I'll be in attendance, can't wait!

[taxicab]

I sure like the way Solitary Ranger took the Battaglia on the front end.
He was mixing it up with four others on the front end,they all stopped cold and SR just drew away like it was nothing.
The closers never threatened.
Scary good.
Anything close to that type of effort should be good enough on Saturday.

http://www.bloodhorse.com/horse-raci...lia-memorial-s

[letswastemoney]

Originally Posted by taxicab

I sure like the way Solitary Ranger took the Battaglia on the front end.
He was mixing it up with four others on the front end,they all stopped cold and SR just drew away like it was nothing.
The closers never threatened.
Scary good.
Anything close to that type of effort should be good enough on Saturday.

http://www.bloodhorse.com/horse-raci...lia-memorial-s

The horses weren't as good in that race. This is the one where all the shippers come in, so it will be different quality he needs to duel with.

[tanner12oz]

Tamarando has a pretty big class edge here

[BIG49010]

Originally Posted by letswastemoney

The horses weren't as good in that race. This is the one where all the shippers come in, so it will be different quality he needs to duel with.

Solitary Ranger just might be a freak, I'll give you my 2 cents, his race at the Fairgrounds was freaky good and almost impossible to put a figure on. It was the only race run on it's day, they ran one sprint the day before and no races after it for 5 days. On a turf course that has very few wire to wire winners, he won with ease. The race at Turfway was similar to the FG race where it was only 1 1/16 and went 47 112 2/5. Last years race went 48 1/5 113 151 4/5, and you would assume the track might be tightened up, so if he slows it down to that pace he might have a big finish in his tank

[tanner12oz]

Kinda crummy card as a whole

[Leparoux]

Originally Posted by tanner12oz

Kinda crummy card as a whole

Full fields of 12 for both of the graded stakes races and at least 8 in most of the others. Pretty solid.

[JustRalph]

What's the best horse to come out of this race?

That Front Runner a few years back........can't recall his name.......?

Ran 2nd in the Derby I think.........?

[tanner12oz]

Originally Posted by Leparoux

Full fields of 12 for both of the graded stakes races and at least 8 in most of the others. Pretty solid.

quality over quantity? Evangeline has the greatest cards in north America?

[dannyhill]

Originally Posted by JustRalph

What's the best horse to come out of this race?

That Front Runner a few years back........can't recall his name.......?

Ran 2nd in the Derby I think.........?

Animal Kingdom went on to win the derby.

[uncbossfan]

Originally Posted by JustRalph

What's the best horse to come out of this race?

That Front Runner a few years back........can't recall his name.......?

Ran 2nd in the Derby I think.........?

Hard Spun is who you are thinking of. He was all guts all 3 tripe crown races.

This race lost some prestige in mid to late 2000's, but I read in late '90's it was the richest prep in the US. It also had a string of I believe 4 straight years of a horse from this race winning one of the Triple crown races.

As noted above, Animal Kingdom ran here a few yrs ago.

[JustRalph]

That's it, Hard Spun