Hey Jimbo great to hear you are OK and that you will be returning to the Spa.
After seeing that you intended to return, I remembered the year we tried to
beat top turf mare and defending champ Forever Together (123 lbs)
(Sheppard/Leparoux)(4/5) in the 2009 Diana. We all (I think NC Tony also) liked
Caribbean Sunset (118 lbs)(Clement/ Dominquez)(9/1) coming off a win at Parx
where she hung up a low TG #. The 5 pounds CS was getting were somehow
counterbalanced by carrying the weight of the wagers of three true T-generates.
Dominguez gets caught in traffic, takes the lead briefly, but we get beat a
head, I remember it like it was yesterday.
Where I've really missed Jimbo the last couple of years has been as the
"rabbit" at TGAB's Saturday seminars, trying to provide some prompting so that
the seminar has a little more pace to it. One year TGAB insisted on giving a
rundown on each runner entered on the card (including scratched horses), and if
it weren't for Jimbo prompting the pace the seminar would have ended sometime
after post time for race 2.
As to the Belmont undercard, some big names which you can check in the stakes
nominations area of the "Horseman's" section of the NYRA website. The
biggest marquee name might be international turf star Flintshire, scheduled to
go for Chad Brown in the Manhattan on Belmont Day. Should be a great day of
racing given some decent weather and minimum intrusion from Chris Kay.
Great that you are back and thank you for the kind words. Hope the family is
doing well.
