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Casino Drive Scratched From Belmont
« on: June 06, 2008, 08:24:32 am »
I am saying now here the same position I've held for weeks that Casino Drive will defeat Big Brown for the Belmont. My friends and I have pooled a very considerable amount of money ( in the thousands ) ready to bet Casino Drive for the Place and Win. No one seems to be accounting for how long this race is. Big Brown is a sprinter... this race is more of a marathon and Casino Drive has been bred and trained to run exactly this race since before he was born.
Not to mention the absolutely terribly odds on Big Brown... Feel like betting 100 to win 30? Big brown is your man. I wouldn't be surprised if he went off at 1/8.
Itll be fun either way. If BB wins, itll be an historical event. If CD wins, Ill be champagne rich. 
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Re: Casino Drive Will Win The Belmont
« Reply #1 on: June 06, 2008, 10:58:36 am »
Anybody who has a thing for sports at all should be reading this Vegas Watch.  This isn't one of the best articles, but he agrees with A-CAP: http://vegaswatch.net/2008/06/2008-belmont-stakes-odds.html
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Re: Casino Drive Will Win The Belmont
« Reply #2 on: June 06, 2008, 07:31:47 pm »
http://tcm.bloodhoss.com/article/45605.htm
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“He has a small issue with his left-hind leg and we are not happy,” said Nobutaka Tada, spokesperson of owner Hidetoshi Yamamota and trainer Kazuo Fujisawa. “So we did not go to the track.”

“We have not yet scratched him from the race,” Tada said outside Barn 17. “There is nothing stopping us at this moment and we are not thinking of scratching. We think it might be a small stone bruise and we will watch it closely.

No fuck*ng way, cmon.
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Acap: I was thirsty one day and I sat down. A year later, Jack's was built around me and thirst is a recurring thing.

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Re: Casino Drive Will Win The Belmont
« Reply #3 on: June 07, 2008, 12:35:26 am »
I don't know or care who wins the race... I'm just going to be very angry if the news story starts, "Tragedy at the Belmont today..."
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Re: Casino Drive Will Win The Belmont
« Reply #4 on: June 07, 2008, 12:59:59 am »
What the heck kind of a name is Big Brown? That's not the name of a champion, that's like something a five year old would name a hoss.
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Re: Casino Drive Will Win The Belmont
« Reply #5 on: June 07, 2008, 01:03:44 am »
Quote from: wombat on June 07, 2008, 12:59:59 am
What the heck kind of a name is Big Brown? That's not the name of a champion, that's like something a five year old would name a hoss.

Big Brown is named after UPS. Big Brown's owner, Paul Pompa Jr., named the hoss in gratitude after his Brooklyn, N.Y., trucking company received a contract extension from UPS Freight. His Truck-Rite Corp. hauls palletized shipments for the UPS trucking unit.
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Re: Casino Drive Will Win The Belmont
« Reply #6 on: June 07, 2008, 01:40:17 am »
Quote from: wombat on June 07, 2008, 12:59:59 am
What the heck kind of a name is Big Brown? That's not the name of a champion, that's like something a five year old would name a hoss.

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Re: Casino Drive Will Win The Belmont
« Reply #7 on: June 07, 2008, 01:41:53 am »
Quote from: AugustWest on June 07, 2008, 01:40:17 am
Please do not be talking bad about Mrs. West's employer.

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Re: Casino Drive Will Win The Belmont
« Reply #8 on: June 07, 2008, 11:36:30 am »
There are three hosss that live on my family's property in Oklahoma and I just realized I have no idea what any of their names are.
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Re: Casino Drive Scratched From Belmont
« Reply #9 on: June 07, 2008, 02:41:06 pm »
http://tcm.blood h o r s e.com/article/45628.htm

Casino Drive has scratched from the Belmont after he was found to be favoring his left side after a morning exercise.
Sad Faces all around. 
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Re: Casino Drive Scratched From Belmont
« Reply #10 on: June 07, 2008, 03:03:04 pm »
Too bad. I just checked the rest of the field and given my theory that the hoss with the best sounding name should win, Casino Drive had a real shot.

I'm rooting for Guadalcanal. I don't care that the odds are 50-1.
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Re: Casino Drive Scratched From Belmont
« Reply #11 on: June 07, 2008, 03:21:21 pm »
Well Big Brown cant win first, second, and third place so two more hosss are going to be handing out money today. Denis of Cork seems to have his shit together. Also, Icabad Crane and Macho Again caught my eye. The big brown predestination opens up Exacta and Trifecta options so this will be fun.
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Re: Casino Drive Scratched From Belmont
« Reply #12 on: June 07, 2008, 07:55:11 pm »
Quote from: Arachno-capitalist on June 07, 2008, 03:21:21 pm
Well Big Brown cant win first, second, and third place so two more hosss are going to be handing out money today. Denis of Cork seems to have his shit together. Also, Icabad Crane and Macho Again caught my eye. The big brown predestination opens up Exacta and Trifecta options so this will be fun.

There are a lot of fairly serious hoss players at my new job and they seem to like Macho Again.  For whatever that's worth.
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Re: Casino Drive Scratched From Belmont
« Reply #13 on: June 07, 2008, 11:05:58 pm »
Well that was some fun. It was like Big Brown wasn't even in the game, he was just some blow hard who happened to show up to the race. I loved it. Standing there in the OTB watching everyone watch Big Brown, the pre-ordained winner of the triple crown, the ultimate bad ass, COME IN LAST PLACE to the hosss his trainer called "a bunch of jokers who don't even deserve to race my hoss".
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Re: Casino Drive Scratched From Belmont
« Reply #14 on: June 07, 2008, 11:48:23 pm »
He was like a completely different hoss.  Somebody made a shitload of money today.
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