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Sounds like a damn catalog entry....
Only photo I've seen of the race so far is too demoralizingly muddy to bother with. Very handsome colt, though, and solid Buckpasser stock, with a much lighter dosage of Native Dancer horses, so that's a relief. I can now hope he gets all three and not be so worried his legs will blow up.
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Holy fuck! The most thrilling part was seeing Ice Box go into hyperdrive from the back of the pack—utterly slimed—for second... I swear, given half a second longer, he'd've won by twenty lengths, he was going so fast! Good Christ on a Crutch! On that AWFUL bog of a track, that animal was traveling. I'm gonna have to pick him for the Belmont. THAT fast at the end of a mile and a quarter, means for dead certain he's got the distance. Probably not the sprint for the Preakness, but, whoa... he was going so fast that even though I knew Super Saver won it, I thought Ice Box was going to put him away.
Yipes.
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Ouch! I gotta take that back. Ice Box has the sprint all over everybody. Dammittalltoheck! Shit! He should've won today. We would have had the Triple Crown at last.
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Whull, unless Eskandereya gets back in, that is....
But, really, now, we gotta root for the pretty horsie with the stupid name.
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Darn near swimming there today.
ReplyDeleteSeriously, dude, whatta trainwreck. Bad enough to get the number one post position, but in a sea of mud, almost no chance at all. I'm just dizzy from looking at Ice Box's late run. He was clear back at second to last until nearly the last turn, then started to run, got smeared even worse by everybody trying to move out around that turn, then pressed on the gas again, got smeared again, and then fucking came out YET AGAIN like a frickin' bullet train, OMG!
ReplyDeleteI don't care WHAT! You gotta admire the hell out a horse like that!
He was a horse-shaped mud sculpture breaking the sound barrier, and he blew everyone's doors off with so much speed in a work just days before. I gotta find some good pictures of him so I can see how I feel about his ability to hold up....
He was hauling ass for sure - looked like he was just starting the race, not the end.
ReplyDeleteWhat blows me away is the announcer - sheesh, how do you keep track of which horse is which more or less keep track of which position they are in when they are all changing positions at the same time! I couldn't even talk that fast!
I have thought that about the announcers my whole life. How the FUCK do they DO that? I can hardly ever see which horse is which unless I'm way up in the stands and couldn't call them out like that to save my LIFE.
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