excellent race to watch, unfortunately i wont be cashing any tickets
. but i'll be watching and rooting for funny cide in the belmont would love to see another triple crown winner in a sport that desperately needs a shot of good publicity and judging by bhis performance today i dont see why not......by the way funny cide is undefeated at belmont....
yeah,....i tellya what,......i really was impressed with that dynever horse and actually didnt even wager on the preekness today,......im waiting for prado to hop on him in the belmont.......might get a decent price now with funny cide going for the triple crown and empire maker coming in well rested.
Uncle B - Funny Cide might have a good chamce of winning the Triple Crown.
And if he did it would be FANTASIC for Horse racing.
Funny Cide is the FIRST New York bred and FIRST gelding to win the Kentucy Derby in 74 years.
And in 3 weeks if he wins at Belmont he will be the FIRST Gelding in HISTORY to win the Triple Crown.
And if it happens it will be a great a shot of publicity for Horse Racing.
Sportsbooks should see a large increase of business over last year for Belmont. The build-up will be exciting!
And if he did it would be FANTASIC for Horse racing.
Funny Cide is the FIRST New York bred and FIRST gelding to win the Kentucy Derby in 74 years.
And in 3 weeks if he wins at Belmont he will be the FIRST Gelding in HISTORY to win the Triple Crown.
And if it happens it will be a great a shot of publicity for Horse Racing.
Sportsbooks should see a large increase of business over last year for Belmont. The build-up will be exciting!
BALTIMORE - (KRT) - The day was dreary and cold, the coldest Preakness on record. It had rained all Friday, a pelting rain, but even after the precipitation came to a halt Saturday morning, Pimlico clung to a biting chill.
Then at 6:14 p.m., a heat wave suddenly rushed over Old Hilltop. A fireball roared around the far turn and down the middle of the stretch. It was as if Funny Cide was charging straight out of the clouds. All by himself.
By the time the New York-bred gelding hit the wire, gasps had replaced shivers among 100,268 souls attending this 128th Preakness. An incredible 93Z4 lengths, the second-largest margin in race history, separated the Kentucky Derby winner from long-shot runner-up Midway Road.
Now only one race separates Funny Cide from immortality.
And the triumphant boys in the bus are headed back home toNew York, ready for a hero's welcome.
"I think we're going to break every record," beamed Jack Knowlton, managing partner of Sackatoga Stable, the winner's collection of everyman owners, in and around Saratoga. "Everyone back home wants to see Funny Cide."
For the fifth time in seven years, a horse is within a triumph in the grueling Belmont Stakes of winning the Triple Crown, the sport's holiest of grails, a rare feat of endurance and talent left unachieved since Affirmed pulled the sweep a quarter century ago.
However, unlike the previous four quests, neither Bob Baffert nor D. Wayne Lukas is involved. Instead, we have a New York-bred, (the first to win the first two jewels), a 65-year-old, low-profile trainer in Barclay Tagg, a class-act jockey in Jose Santos, and the boys and their "yellow stretch limo."
In Louisville, the Sackatogans had investigated the possibility of attending their first Derby in grand style. The $3,200 charge for a stretch limousine was deemed prohibitive, however. These are small-town, small-time guys, after all. So Sackatogan Dave Mahan, a caterer from Watertown, Conn., acquired the services of a yellow school bus for $1,100.
Since everyone loves a winner, latecomers wished to hop on the Funny Cide bandwagon. The more the merrier. Two buses were required. The first carried 39. The second ferried more than double that number.
"We had 120 people in all here for Funny Cide today," said Knowlton in the press tent, his smile as wide as the Jumbotron behind him. "New York's a little different since we all are from around there. But I'm sure some way we'll find a yellow bus. We don't want to break tradition."
Funny Cide's trainer, meanwhile, pays tradition no mind, to good effect. Tagg did not ship Funny Cide to Churchill Downs until three days before the Derby, and won. After insisting he would bring Funny Cide to Baltimore the (early) morning of the race, he vanned his equine prize the afternoon before, and won again. Big.
In fact, only one other horse has dismissed a Preakness field in a more dominating manner. His name was Survivor. His margin of victory was 10 lengths. The year was 1873. It was the very first Preakness.
"I have to admit I wasn't surprised," Tagg said afterward. "I am grateful, but I thought he was headed along that way."
Never mind the speed bumps along the way, the most daunting being that not-so-funny flap over the optical illusion in jockey Santos' right hand as he crossed the Derby finish line. That nonsense was gone Saturday, but not forgotten.
"Jack and I, we both know Jose and his reputation, but I thought it was a terrible shame for his family," said Tagg. "To go off half-cocked like that, there's no excuse for that kind of stuff."
"Nobody," said Santos, "can say anything bad about Jose Santos, Funny Cide or Barclay Tagg today."
Or maybe, once again, 8-year-old Jose Santos Jr., said it best.
Moments after the race, Jose was hurrying across the metal runway that had been laid down over the muddy Pimlico surface. Holding his grandmother's hand, he was headed for the winner's circle to join his grinning father.
"Two down and one to go," little Jose kept repeating over and over. "Two down, and one to go, Grandma. Two down, and one to go."
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Then at 6:14 p.m., a heat wave suddenly rushed over Old Hilltop. A fireball roared around the far turn and down the middle of the stretch. It was as if Funny Cide was charging straight out of the clouds. All by himself.
By the time the New York-bred gelding hit the wire, gasps had replaced shivers among 100,268 souls attending this 128th Preakness. An incredible 93Z4 lengths, the second-largest margin in race history, separated the Kentucky Derby winner from long-shot runner-up Midway Road.
Now only one race separates Funny Cide from immortality.
And the triumphant boys in the bus are headed back home toNew York, ready for a hero's welcome.
"I think we're going to break every record," beamed Jack Knowlton, managing partner of Sackatoga Stable, the winner's collection of everyman owners, in and around Saratoga. "Everyone back home wants to see Funny Cide."
For the fifth time in seven years, a horse is within a triumph in the grueling Belmont Stakes of winning the Triple Crown, the sport's holiest of grails, a rare feat of endurance and talent left unachieved since Affirmed pulled the sweep a quarter century ago.
However, unlike the previous four quests, neither Bob Baffert nor D. Wayne Lukas is involved. Instead, we have a New York-bred, (the first to win the first two jewels), a 65-year-old, low-profile trainer in Barclay Tagg, a class-act jockey in Jose Santos, and the boys and their "yellow stretch limo."
In Louisville, the Sackatogans had investigated the possibility of attending their first Derby in grand style. The $3,200 charge for a stretch limousine was deemed prohibitive, however. These are small-town, small-time guys, after all. So Sackatogan Dave Mahan, a caterer from Watertown, Conn., acquired the services of a yellow school bus for $1,100.
Since everyone loves a winner, latecomers wished to hop on the Funny Cide bandwagon. The more the merrier. Two buses were required. The first carried 39. The second ferried more than double that number.
"We had 120 people in all here for Funny Cide today," said Knowlton in the press tent, his smile as wide as the Jumbotron behind him. "New York's a little different since we all are from around there. But I'm sure some way we'll find a yellow bus. We don't want to break tradition."
Funny Cide's trainer, meanwhile, pays tradition no mind, to good effect. Tagg did not ship Funny Cide to Churchill Downs until three days before the Derby, and won. After insisting he would bring Funny Cide to Baltimore the (early) morning of the race, he vanned his equine prize the afternoon before, and won again. Big.
In fact, only one other horse has dismissed a Preakness field in a more dominating manner. His name was Survivor. His margin of victory was 10 lengths. The year was 1873. It was the very first Preakness.
"I have to admit I wasn't surprised," Tagg said afterward. "I am grateful, but I thought he was headed along that way."
Never mind the speed bumps along the way, the most daunting being that not-so-funny flap over the optical illusion in jockey Santos' right hand as he crossed the Derby finish line. That nonsense was gone Saturday, but not forgotten.
"Jack and I, we both know Jose and his reputation, but I thought it was a terrible shame for his family," said Tagg. "To go off half-cocked like that, there's no excuse for that kind of stuff."
"Nobody," said Santos, "can say anything bad about Jose Santos, Funny Cide or Barclay Tagg today."
Or maybe, once again, 8-year-old Jose Santos Jr., said it best.
Moments after the race, Jose was hurrying across the metal runway that had been laid down over the muddy Pimlico surface. Holding his grandmother's hand, he was headed for the winner's circle to join his grinning father.
"Two down and one to go," little Jose kept repeating over and over. "Two down, and one to go, Grandma. Two down, and one to go."
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Intuition BET
Would be cool as Hell, thanks for the info.
<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR> he will be the FIRST Gelding in HISTORY to win the Triple Crown.
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Don't follow horses much at all, didn't realise this.
Hope he does win it all, would be great for the sport.
Would be cool as Hell, thanks for the info.
<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR> he will be the FIRST Gelding in HISTORY to win the Triple Crown.
<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
Don't follow horses much at all, didn't realise this.
Hope he does win it all, would be great for the sport.
