the video told a story not on the chart and the close told a lot about both horses

and tarantino was a throw out race and those 2 looked a lot better to me than Gretzky the great.

good luck in the contest.

smartyslew said...

good luck in the contest.

its not really a contest.  Nobody really picked their horses for the derby in order.   I play a similar contest on anotehr group, the master of cermonies has 4 categories and he puts the horses in each category you can choose only ONE from.  Usually, my top 3 horses are always concentrated in only one of those categories, so I only get to pick one.... then I pretty much "make up" my other picks out of thin air  because none of the categories he designs have  horses I would touch with a 10 foot pole.  LOL 

This one here is more like a pick a square in a football lottery that as the game goes on you are welcome to a square nobody else is taking.    But thank you just the same.  

It is a fun pasttime and I'm glad cubs thought of it.   Kinda something to lift the spirit and is lighthearted.  

For years I ran the 1 to 20 pool draw at  work for $1, $5, and $10 for the Derby !

I was nice if your horse was injured  you got your money back if  I started the contest

a week or longer before the derby, I was a shift worker had to cover 4 shifts and every year was different

to cover the race. A couple guys that have passed, gave me hell because they got hooked on Horse Racing

all in fun of course. One of them loved me later when OTB opened in the nineties, and we live in Gary Stevens

Country and almost everybody in there Bet on Thunder Gulch, even Stevens Grand Parents were in there

We had to come back on Monday with a chit to collect our money, The guy that ran the OTB, A texas hold em

buddy of mine, was told he had the highest percentage  payout in the whole network betting on the Derby.

I wonder if some of those guys are going to skip the first pre Derby Party since there chances of getting lucky

went from 38% to zero.

Derby point leader board 4/24/21

Name, Horse conduit Tail female number, most of the female families in 5 generation,

next is Derby Points,  then Birthdate, Dams Age, Dams crop number for the entrant,

2nd row: N= Derby Nick, if applical, last race distance, next is 3 speed numbers

Con = Conduit Mare number of Derby winners . many have zero.

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Only the pessimists.  ;)

Thanks for doing this Smarty!  I have officially reached analysis paralysis.

Your Welcome  :)

Gary is agent for Van Dyke. They came East.

Great story.

I got the guys sitting around outside smoking at the shop interested in the Derby. Got tired of listening about cars.

I guess that means you were a bad influence in the neighborhood  LOL. 

Someone I dislike very much introduced me to horse racing.  He dumped my best friend after 10 years of marriage. 

He dumped horse racing, too, and I am still best friends with a lovely woman. 

So he's a double loser.