Sunday Morning Quarterbacking (548 Views)

I feel like I've got a hangover and I didn't have a single drink in the last 24+ hours. Oh, I don't drink anymore.

I'm greeted by twenty-something women (all made up and wardrobed) on ESPN analyzing the Masters? the last bastion of Chauvenism!

Three major KY Derby prep races yesterday? What, if anything did we learn?

In the Wood, the crowd betting favorite was the 2nd slowest horse (based on prior TG tops) in the race. Early Voting was expected to run fast early and slow late did. The crowd along with TG seminar got the race right enough to have made money. By playing the slow horses?

In the Bluegrass, with lots of relatively slow horses, the race went pretty much according to form and Chad Brown had a good day.

In the Santa Anita Derby, and (by the way) by now many of us are suspecting Baffert's proxy trainers are not able to get the same speed out of his trainees as the original team. Um, uh, the two celebrity horses got crushed first one early and the other late. The winner could have been had if you figured the favorites had flaws. Yawn.

Take Away - Horse Racing is Unpredictable. A Young Black Woman analyzing the Masters was predictable. One-legged golfers are no better than three-legged racehorses. Which has nothing to do with their spirit.

We now head into a phase of who should, who shouldn't, who will, and who won't Kentucky Derby. IMHO we have the makeup for an interesting formful Triple Crown This Year.