If you've never watched the Derby before, you should treat yourself Saturday. There's a tremendous amount of energy and tension that goes into it. The whole tunderin' hooves thing has a certain thrill to it too. The trick is to select a horse so that you have some kind of stake in it. (Putting actual money down probably magnifies the entire experience, but we here in the FP are afraid of losing money.)
Here's the field:
Sedgefield (Julien Leparoux, 50-1)
Curlin (Robby Albarado, 7-2)
Zanjero (Shaun Bridgmohan, 30-1)
Storm in May (Juan Leyva, 30-1)
Imawildandcrazyguy (M. Guidry, 50-1)
Cowtown Cat (Fernando Jara, 20-1)
Street Sense (Calvin Borel, 4-1)
Hard Spun (Mario Pino, 15-1)
Liquidity (David Flores, 30-1)
Teuflesberg (Stewart Elliott, 30-1)
Bwana Bull (Javier Castellano, 50-1)
Nobiz Like Shobiz (C. Velasquez, 8-1)
Sam P. (Ramon Dominguez, 20-1)
Scat Daddy (Edgar Prado, 10-1)
Tiago (Mike Smith, 15-1)
Circular Quay (John Velazquez, 8-1)
Stormello (Kent Desormeaux, 30-1)
Any Given Saturday (G. Gomez, 12-1)
Dominican (Rafael Bejarano, 20-1)
Great Hunter (Corey Nakatani, 15-1) |
The FP Gal has had very good luck picking the winner over the last three years. This year she's going with 'Zanjero' (provisionally and with the option of changing it right before the race starts). I'm going with 'Tiago' because it reminds me of 'tiger'. Hmmm, that wouldn't be a bad name for a boy either...
1 comment:
I'm going with Zanjero.
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