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Re: Pegasus and Dragon - 2 years ago
"What are they going to do with the "Against All Odds" statue at Arlington Park?" Phil Collins is taking it to the Alamo.by Rich Curtis - Ask the Experts
Re: Beychok - 2 years ago
Getting Carville to leave horse racing might help. It would be a nice twist. Carville brought Beychok in. Beychok takes Carville out. Political consultants thought they had seen it all--then decide horse racing is more than they can stomach.by Rich Curtis - Ask the Experts
Re: Beychok - 2 years ago
What did Del Mar officials say when you told them where Baffert parks?by Rich Curtis - Ask the Experts
Re: Beychok - 2 years ago
Parking spots are windows to the soul. That's why people who don't drive are inscrutable.by Rich Curtis - Ask the Experts
Re: Even Blind Squirrels - 3 years ago
Fairmount: "many sires flat out could NOT get horses to go 1 1/4" How are you defining "NOT get horses to go 1 1/4" in speed figure terms? What kind of a decline are you talking about?by Rich Curtis - Ask the Experts
Re: Tony Zhou - 3 years ago
Aw, the first 20 minutes of the podcast are the best thing under water since Led Zeppelin's "No Quarter."by Rich Curtis - Ask the Experts
Re: Ray gives New York racing his highest praise - 3 years ago
Paulick should know by now that this sport is beyond satire. About 15 years ago, Steve Crist began a piece by telegraphing his irony with a Claude Rains "shocked." Then he seasoned the baby with salt and pepper by saying that since the US Congress was now on the case, there was no cause for worry. Then he was called naive for trusting Congress.by Rich Curtis - Ask the Experts
Re: Great Weekend - 3 years ago
This will be a good test of how much JB has mellowed.by Rich Curtis - Ask the Experts
Re: More Important Than Horse Racing? - 3 years ago
Dig a little deeper and a little closer to home and you'll soon find yourself stuck betting on Tuvaluan cricket.by Rich Curtis - Ask the Experts
Re: Arlington Park - 3 years ago
Playing for pairs off of 10-year gaps might be a little much, Gary, especially when the horse is owned by Donald Trump and trained by Dennis Prager.by Rich Curtis - Ask the Experts
Re: Len Ragozin New Yorker (not New York) Magazine 1987 - 3 years ago
"that fanboy piece came out the same night my then girlfriend broke up with me on my answering machine." I hate it when they do that. Anyway, here is a different article. If the link does not work, Google "Jerry Kirshenbaum Len Ragozin" and it should be on top.by Rich Curtis - Ask the Experts
Re: Interesting POV on Medina/Baffert - 3 years ago
She is obviously very smart. That is why I am not inclined to cut her any slack for what she says starting at 17:10 in and lasting for about four minutes. She is far too smart not to know the impression her word game will leave on people who do not follow the sport closely.by Rich Curtis - Ask the Experts
Re: Interesting POV on Medina/Baffert - 3 years ago
Look her up, Dana. She's doing what she does, and you'll like what she says until you don't.by Rich Curtis - Ask the Experts
Re: Rough Week for The Truth? - 3 years ago
I think you are right. Baffert told Dan Patrick that the hay thing was "resolved." I get the feeling that this is a case where a bunch of news sources were all feeding off of one item (probably a tweet), an item that did not "date" the quotation. Then the news sources made a bad assumption and totally botched the story.by Rich Curtis - Ask the Experts
Re: Listen... - 3 years ago
"I can't remember the story, did Gulliver have it coming?" Think of Baffert's groom in the stall--only Gulliver was putting out a fire, and Baffert's groom was starting one.by Rich Curtis - Ask the Experts
Re: KY Downs - 4 years ago
I believe you are improving the Dominican Republic story a little bit too much, Socalman. There was no revolution at that time. There was chaos surrounding an election, but the reporter in question was preoccupied with the results of his bet, which were going to be decided by a ruling. So he left the scene of the chaos in order to check on the results of his bet. Bosch was overthrown months laterby Rich Curtis - Ask the Experts
Re: Why Oaklawn Handle Was So High? - 4 years ago
Every inch of this ground is contested, Hellersorr. This subject was a battlefield before the book. It is a battlefield after the book. Take a poll of Shakespeare scholars and the de Vere theory would lose--as it already has--in a monumental rout, "slam dunks" notwithstanding. More "slam dunks" came out in the years since the book was published, some of these on the opposite eby Rich Curtis - Ask the Experts
Re: Why Oaklawn Handle Was So High? - 4 years ago
There are indeed problems with all the candidates. That is why I got tired of waiting for someone else to challenge the "slam dunk for Edward de Vere" line. As for Shakespeare's daughters being illiterate, given the conditions for girls back then, I would not take that fact any further than the obvious place: It means we can eliminate them as candidates.by Rich Curtis - Ask the Experts
Re: Why Oaklawn Handle Was So High? - 4 years ago
Slam dunk? Every time there is a defender on the court, the theory gets swatted into the stands. Among a million other things, there are problems with the timing/death, problems with the presumed motives for anonymity, and crippling problems with the writing styles. I realize that proponents of the theory are well practiced at bending themselves into pretzels in order to explain away all the objeby Rich Curtis - Ask the Experts
Re: Study of speedrate by trainer/year - 4 years ago
I always had you pegged as a diplomat.by Rich Curtis - Ask the Experts
Re: Is the writing on the wall? - 4 years ago
"Adding a mixed-use entertainment component similar to venues in Florida is also not something they are looking at adding to the track for now, Stronach Chief Strategy Officer Aiden Butler told Bisnow." That's reassuring. You don't want your Chief Strategy Officer looking at adding things he is not looking at adding. That kind of "vision" should be reserved for thby Rich Curtis - Ask the Experts
Re: NHC Strategy - 4 years ago
I can tell by comparing the number of views their posts get to the number of views their posts deserve to get. And in the case of BitPlayer, there is something else: Several years back, he praised a book by Daniel Kahneman. That was really all I needed. If BitPlayer is not on Mount Rushmore, BitPlayer is underrated.by Rich Curtis - Ask the Experts
Re: NHC Strategy - 4 years ago
I have always told people that BitPlayer was the most underrated poster on this board, but you have been making it increasingly likely that this, too, will be decided at a contested convention.by Rich Curtis - Ask the Experts
Re: NHC Strategy - 4 years ago
I think you are employing way too much ideological "lane theory" and not nearly enough demographic/class "lane theory." But that, as they say, is why they run around the racetrack. We will know soon enough. I also think a lot of people are doing way too much early, fine-line weighing of things like delegates and percentages. They are weighing with a cocaine scale that isby Rich Curtis - Ask the Experts
Re: NHC Strategy - 4 years ago
"Bernie beat Pete in NH by 2 points but they both received the same number of delegates (9 each)....don't see that mentioned in the media too much" Given the Iowa farce, that's like asking Mrs Lincoln to critique the OTHER play that night.by Rich Curtis - Ask the Experts
Re: NHC Strategy - 4 years ago
If the Democrats plan on showing up at a contested convention and nominating someone like Klobuchar while Bernie has a significant lead in delegates, well, did you see French Connection 2? They might want to "bring some water."by Rich Curtis - Ask the Experts
Re: NHC Strategy - 4 years ago
Rogan has a wildly popular podcast. His audience is massive and young. And he grants himself the comedian's license to be politically incorrect and over the top. Bernie appeared on the podcast because Rogan's audience is a dream audience for him. Rogan liked him and later more or less endorsed him. The issue is whether Bernie's touting of Rogan's endorsement implied Berby Rich Curtis - Ask the Experts
Re: NHC Strategy - 4 years ago
Upon reflection, I apologize. I went with what I thought would be best for the rhythm of the sentence instead of going with what I knew was right. That was cheap on my part. Please fix it for me.by Rich Curtis - Ask the Experts