[OrangeDood (gocincinnati@yahoo.com)] [7 May 2005 19:50:26 -0700]
:"The sun shines bright on my old Kentucky Home..." : :The Preakness and the Belmont are mere pretenders. There is only one :Kentucky Derby. : :What a great race that was. There's something about the rising :excitement in the voice of the announcer as they pound down the :stretch... and here comes Giacomo outta nowhere. Wow.
In other words, you've never been to the Preakness.
Mint juleps taste horrible.
(then again, black-eyed susans aren't much better.. blech)
Are there nekkid hawties in the infield in Kentucky?
-- Bryan S. Slick, onyx_hokie at yahoo dot com
"There ain't nothing wrong a few cold beers can't iron out in fact, you tell me just when and where, and I'll buy the first round"
The Preakness and the Belmont are mere pretenders. There is only one> Kentucky Derby.
Yes, it's the most prestigious (and i grew up 35 miles from pimlico), but it's also the one least likely to be won by the best horse. They let 20 horses enter and it becomes a cavalry charge with too much chance of getting pinned hopelessly in the crowd or swung outside, etc.
Though that didn't happen today - the steinbrenner colt's wood run is looking like a fluke.
-- "if federal judges have the final word over its meaning, the Constitution would be a mere thing of wax in the hands of the judiciary, which they may twist and shape into any form they please".
[John Rogers (tiger7_88@yahoo.com)] [Sun, 08 May 2005 01:42:33 -0400]
:You ever had a chance in your life to ride a horse (not necessarily a :thoroughbred) at full (and I mean :full-flat-out-ears-down-runnin'-back-to-the-barn-to-get-fed) gallop? : :Not as fast as a racing thoroughbred, I'm sure... but, SON. Talk about :adrenalin pumpin'.
Agree with this 100%. I love to ride.
Best time I think I ever had on horseback, we were at a family outing type thing.. and it wasn't trail riding, it was open field. My father's horse stepped on a tree limb and it snapped loudly.. my sister's horse FREAKED and took off like a bat out of Hell. I got to run my horse at a full gallop to catch up to hers and grab the reins to get it to stop.
Straight out of some tv show.. and it was FUN. Probably could have gotten myself killed, but it was FUN, dammit. Yeeeeha!
-- Bryan S. Slick, onyx_hokie at yahoo dot com
"There ain't nothing wrong a few cold beers can't iron out in fact, you tell me just when and where, and I'll buy the first round"
"Bryan S. Slick" <onyx_hokie@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:MPG.1ce77c7280970bd998ce59@news-40.giganews.com...> [John Rogers (tiger7_88@yahoo.com)]> [Sun, 08 May 2005 01:42:33 -0400]>
:You ever had a chance in your life to ride a horse (not necessarily a> :thoroughbred) at full (and I mean> :full-flat-out-ears-down-runnin'-back-to-the-barn-to-get-fed) gallop?> :> :Not as fast as a racing thoroughbred, I'm sure... but, SON. Talk about> :adrenalin pumpin'.>
Agree with this 100%. I love to ride.>
Best time I think I ever had on horseback, we were at a family outing> type thing.. and it wasn't trail riding, it was open field. My father's> horse stepped on a tree limb and it snapped loudly.. my sister's horse> FREAKED and took off like a bat out of Hell. I got to run my horse at a> full gallop to catch up to hers and grab the reins to get it to stop.>
Straight out of some tv show.. and it was FUN. Probably could have> gotten myself killed, but it was FUN, dammit. Yeeeeha!>
-- > Bryan S. Slick, onyx_hokie at yahoo dot com>
"There ain't nothing wrong a few cold beers can't iron out> in fact, you tell me just when and where, and I'll buy the first round">
Charles Beauchamp 9 May 2005 02:29:50 [ permanent link ]
StephenJ wrote:>> The Preakness and the Belmont are mere pretenders. There is only one>> Kentucky Derby.>
Yes, it's the most prestigious (and i grew up 35 miles from pimlico),> but it's also the one least likely to be won by the best horse. They> let 20 horses enter and it becomes a cavalry charge with too much> chance of getting pinned hopelessly in the crowd or swung outside,> etc.>
Though that didn't happen today - the steinbrenner colt's wood run is> looking like a fluke.
I'm not so sure about that last part. The Kentucky Derby separates the three year old pretenders from the actual contenders every year. The favorite rarely wins. Looks to me like Spanish Chestnut did his job setting a blistering pace and burning Bellomy Road out.
If I was the boss of that team I'd hold Bellomy Road out of the Preakness and aim for the Belmont. And looking ahead a month I'd peg Bellomy Road as the favaorite along with Afleet Alex (who is the real top horse of this crop).
-- v/r Beau
Ghosts don't exist and there is nothing to be afraid of....except for SuperAIDS.
Yes, it's the most prestigious (and i grew up 35 miles from pimlico),
it's also the one least likely to be won by the best horse. They let 20> > horses enter and it becomes a cavalry charge with too much chance of
getting> > pinned hopelessly in the crowd or swung outside, etc.> >
Though that didn't happen today - the steinbrenner colt's wood run is> > looking like a fluke.>
Too many horses tried to keep up with the rabbit.
yep, they got whip-sawed. but in a cavalry charge it's tough to avoid that, because if you don't go after the rabbit you could end up buried in the huge pack.
-- "if federal judges have the final word over its meaning, the Constitution would be a mere thing of wax in the hands of the judiciary, which they may twist and shape into any form they please".
