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Wake me up when the San Felipe and Rebel happens in two months. I wasn't a believer in Coliseum and we saw what happened in the Sham.

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^ The only three preps worth paying attention to most of the time.

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Gunmetal Gray is a nice-looking horse. Still wasn't impressed by the Sham. Coliseum just didn't fire.

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https://racingdudes.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/IMPROBABLE-The-Street-Sense-6th-Running-11-02-18-R04-CD-Finish-03.jpg Baffert has won the Hollywood/Los Alamitos/Cash Call Futurity 11 times. From the previous 10 winners, only 6 made it to the Derby starting gate. 1997 - Real Quiet 1999 - Captain ...

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https://cdn-images.bloodhorse.com/i/bloodhorse-images/2018/11/6bf1fbf007634cf1811fc6918e245514.jpg?width=450&maxheight=297&mode=max Want to start a thread about this horse because I think I just found my 2019 Kentucky Derby winner if he can stay healthy. Not sold on Game Winner. Seems to loaf aroun...

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If Ghostzapper can win Horse of the Year off four starts, Justify can win it off six. Justify is sorta like our Ghostzapper-version among Triple Crown winners except Justify ran six times in a span of 112 days. From Ghostzapper's '03 Vosburgh to '05 Met Mile, those six starts spanned nearly 20 month...

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"There’s no timetable you can employ at will. The Triple Crown dates are set in stone, three races in a five weeks, period. You can’t pick and choose." Bob Baffert makes a point. You can't pick and choose. Once Justify won the Kentucky Derby in the wettest rendition for it, he had to win again on a...

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For me, Justify winning HotY is more about honoring Team Baffert. Bob Baffert = GOAT horse trainer I know not everyone likes this man, but say Baffert is dead 5-10 years from now? Those same people saying negative things about him now will be praising him when he's dead. Think Bobby Frankel (or even...

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I'll echo Steve Haskin's sentiments from over a week ago by saying to not take the Triple Crown for granted just because American Pharoah won it in 2015. Justify should be the 2018 HotY. There will be a BC Classic winner every year. Justify provided us with great joy and made 2018 a year for the his...

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Whoever wins HotY, it's not like robbery since it isn't exactly lopsided. It's like Rachel vs Zenyatta or Zenyatta vs Blame. No problem with either to me. This ain't no Dances With Wolves beating Goodfellas for Best Picture for 1990! Accelerate and Justify are from California, so no East vs West riv...

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WTF?

I don't like that. I enjoy Wrona. I love Santa Anita but I don't know what's going on over there with their management after reading those comments.

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Had Justify won the Triple Crown in 2014, he'd be Horse of the Year. But since AP already did it in 2015, he gets penalized since we already saw AP do it. California Chrome was the 2014 HotY and he failed to win the Belmont and didn't win a dirt race again after the Preakness until 5. Winning a Trip...

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Elliott Walden is echoing alot of what I said already. And it's true. Look at Secretariat who lost two of three against elders on dirt. Didn't even run in the Jockey Club Gold Cup. Seattle Slew didn't have a second half of 1977. Lost badly to JO Tobin after that boneheaded, greedy decision by his ow...

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Triple Crown winners DRF PPs Who I think should win HotY? Accelerate Who I want to win? Justify Who I think the voters will pick? Justify Justify will have the East Coast voters winning in Kentucky, Maryland, and New York (minus Mike Repole) the same way Zenyatta had the NY vote after Blame ran ...

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I hate going to Del Mar. Arrogate probably felt the same way. "HE BLEW IT, MAN! HE BLEW IT!" https://youtu.be/lMjKEETJLQc That was a worse performance than Cigar getting upset by Dare and Go. At least Cigar had a reason to lose chasing Siphon early. Justify 1st - February maiden 1st - March allowanc...

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https://184cda7661b9609f94b0-f196c43f59505ef65734afae659eea38.ssl.cf2.rackcdn.com/Justify_workout_Belmont_2018_615x400_1_orig.jpg Justify can still win Horse of the Year based on sentimental reasons. Before the BC Classic, did most people remember or even watched Accelerate's previous wins this yea...

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Twenty years ago from now, fans will remember that Justify's biggest roadblock from winning the 2018 HotY came from his owners and the breeders who bought him. All this crap gets too political and sometimes personal anyway. BTW, I'm Team Red. #MAGA. And I live in a state full of liberals. I hate the...

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To Justify's credit, Mendelssohn ran a nice race. Accelerate didn't exactly blow this field away. The same Mendy that Justify humiliated at Churchill six months prior. I'm usually objective each year and most Eclipse voters get it right better than the Academy Awards for Best Picture. Some of the Os...

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Accelerate and only because it encourages owners to race their horses all season. Not stop in June thinking they have it in the bag. Justify wouldn't care what a HotY award is. It's like Rachel and Zenyatta, they DGAF. Justify won the most elusive American racing crown already. Foal crop 2013 BCC TH...

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Let the Justify vs Accelerate HotY debate begin...

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As I expected. Coming from a big Justify fan, Accelerate should be HotY. Owners need to compete all year. Not think they have it in the bag and stopping in June. It's unprecedented that a Triple Crown winner will be denied HotY but it needs to happen this year. For Justify fans, just be grateful he ...

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