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Post by cait on May 10, 2013 22:44:26 GMT -5
From the Baltimore Sun:
Preakness field coming together slowly
Kentucky Derby winner Orb unlikely to face full 14-horse field
By Chris Korman
Some years, Maryland Jockey Club stakes coordinator Coley Blind has to turn horses away from the Preakness. He and other members of the staff may look through the credentials of 20 horses, calculating their earnings -- the Preakness uses a fairly complicated three-tiered system -- to determine the 14-horse field.
Not this year.
As of Friday afternoon, connections for only seven horses had confirmed they planned to enter the race, and five others had been identified as strong possibilities.
Blind said Friday that he expects the field to settle at 12 horses.
“Twelve great competitors would be better than 14 so-so competitors,” he said.
A source said Friday that Mylute, the fifth-place finisher in the Kentucky Derby, will enter the Preakness if his trip to the track Saturday goes as planned. That would bring jockey Rosie Napravnik back to Maryland, where she got her start as a rider, for the state’s most important race.
Normandy Invasion, the fourth-place finisher in the Derby, is also still under consideration, as is 18th-place Vyjack.
Govenor Charlie and Street e, who skipped the Derby, are also still under consideration.
The Preakness draw is Wednesday at 6 p.m.
Blind begins trying to piece together a Preakness field in April, then spends Sunday morning after the Kentucky Derby meeting with trainers of the horses who did not finish first. This year, he immediately discovered that a fifth of the field -- all trained by Todd Pletcher -- had been ruled out of consideration for Preakness.
“I think part of it is the quality of the field, and Orb has shown to be a special horse,” he said of the light interest in the race. “But it’s also just where the horses stand in their development and training right now.”
Blind is also sorting through 499 other horses nominated for the 16 other stakes races scheduled for Friday and Saturday of next week.
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Post by Jon on May 11, 2013 0:41:09 GMT -5
Brown unsure whether to run Normandy Invasion
By David Grening
ELMONT, N.Y. – It was shaping up to be a restless weekend for trainer Chad Brown as he contemplates whether or not to run Kentucky Derby fourth-place finisher Normandy Invasion back in next Saturday’s Preakness Stakes.
Brown was at Belmont Park on Friday morning to watch Normandy Invasion gallop 1 1/2 miles over the training track, which was harrowed and labeled good for training. Though Brown was pleased with what he saw from the light-framed colt, he is debating internally whether to run back in two weeks or plot out a strategy that gets Normandy Invasion to the Travers at Saratoga on Aug. 24 in the best shape possible.
“When you have one of the better 3-year-olds in the country and you have a race like the Travers that I really want to win – anyone would really want to win – I really got to keep that in mind,” Brown said outside his barn on a glorious spring morning. “I don’t want to do anything to risk the horse for the rest of the year.
“The only thing really to gain is if you win the Preakness,” Brown added. “Running in the Preakness and hitting the board is not going to do anything for me or [owner Rick] Porter – we’ve had that discussion. If we go, I got to be very confident that we have an excellent chance to win the race. Anything short of that we probably wouldn’t go.”
The calendar would suggest that even if Normandy Invasion ran in the Preakness, win or lose, he would still have enough time to make the Jim Dandy on July 27 and the Travers four weeks later. But, Brown said, that doesn’t have to be the case.
“They’re not cars. You can’t just say ‘Oh well, he’s going to come out of the Preakness fine and that break will do him fine,’ ” Brown said. “Maybe you really knock him out or maybe we run him back in the Preakness and he wins and now we totally changed the landscape of the 3-year-old division because we won one of the classics.”
Normandy Invasion, who made the lead at the quarter pole in the Derby, was beaten 3 1/2 lengths by Orb. He shipped back to New York on Monday night and after walking Tuesday, he jogged Wednesday and Thursday over a muddy Belmont training track before galloping late Friday morning. Normandy Invasion appeared to show good energy, and was also more relaxed than he was late Derby Week.
“I thought he was moving well,” Brown said. “As you can see, he’s back home with less people around; he’s nice and relaxed galloping. He was starting to get on the bit pretty good the last week at Churchill. He’s back being comfortable.”
Brown said he would watch Normandy Invasion gallop over the weekend before making a decision. Brown did say that if he decided to run in the Preakness he would not give Normandy Invasion a timed workout.
“He doesn’t need to work,” Brown said.
Brown said that Javier Castellano would retain the mount if Normandy Invasion ran in the Preakness.
In other Preakness developments:
◗ Shortly after 6 a.m., Kentucky Derby winner Orb galloped a strong 1 1/4 miles over Belmont’s main track under exercise rider Jennifer Patterson. “I thought he went around there pretty good,” trainer Shug McGaughey said.
◗ Itsmyluckyday, 15th in the Kentucky Derby, was scheduled to work Saturday morning at Monmouth Park, weather permitting, trainer Eddie Plesa said. There was rain in the forecast Friday night and into Saturday morning for the Monmouth area, and Plesa said he didn’t want to work on a wet track.
Plesa said if he doesn’t get to work Itsmyluckyday by Monday, then he won’t work the colt before the race.
Itsmyluckyday is expected to van to Pimlico on Tuesday.
◗ Goldencents, who returned to the track for training at Pimlico on Thursday for a jog, ramped it up to a gallop on Friday with his regular jockey, Kevin Krigger, who is remaining in Baltimore through the Preakness. Jack Sisterson, the on-site assistant to trainer Doug O’Neill, said Goldencents bounced out of the Derby, in which he finished 17th, “with high energy.” O’Neill said Goldencents could work on Monday at Pimlico.
◗ Govenor Charlie, forced to pass the Derby owing to an interruption in training, is scheduled to work on Monday at Churchill Downs in his final drill for the Preakness, according to his trainer, Bob Baffert, who has won the Preakness five times, most recently with Lookin At Lucky in 2010.
◗ Trainer D. Wayne Lukas, scheduled to send out three Preakness runners – Oxbow, Titletown Five, and Will Take Charge – also has won the Preakness five times, the last with Charismatic in 1999. T.J. Healey also won the Preakness five times, between 1901 and 1929. Baffert, Lukas, and Healey are tied for second behind R.W. Walden, who trained seven Preakness winners between 1875 and 1888. The race was first run in 1873.
◗ A decision as to the Preakness status of Mylute, fifth in the Derby, was scheduled to be made Saturday morning, according to trainer Tom Amoss. Mylute is training at Churchill Downs.
◗ Departing, the Illinois Derby winner, was scheduled to have his final Preakness work on Sunday at Churchill Downs. He did not run in the Derby
– additional reporting by Jay Privman
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Post by mrdelmarwasmybitch on May 11, 2013 13:40:48 GMT -5
and how is oxbow going to get loose on the lead with goldencents in the race?
I will book all bets on oxbow.
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Post by mrdelmarwasmybitch on May 11, 2013 15:33:09 GMT -5
cait I love you!! therefore I will refrain from giving my opinion reguarding oxbow anymore on here.
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Post by Evelyn on May 11, 2013 18:09:21 GMT -5
mylute was confrimed as a starter today. www.drf.com/news/preakness-stakes-mylute-confirmed-part-fieldno confirmation in or out for Verrazano and Vyjack wiz - I'm the Oxbow fan. Or I was LOL I will probably have him in my Preakness boxes. I know C played him in futures but I think was more for Frac Daddy, Revolutionary and Orb by Derby Day |
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Post by cait on May 11, 2013 23:10:55 GMT -5
cait I love you!! therefore I will refrain from giving my opinion reguarding oxbow anymore on here. awwwww wiz   |
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Post by cait on May 11, 2013 23:12:20 GMT -5
but you know i disregard opinions about horses if i like 'em lol how about mylute- i'd love to see rosie do well in baltimore - well=2nd to orb lol
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Post by shooter29 on May 11, 2013 23:16:19 GMT -5
I heard that Vyjack has lost weight since the Derby, so it's not exactly clear what his status for the race will be. We could be lookingat an even 10-horse field.
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Post by cait on May 11, 2013 23:22:14 GMT -5
i want a md "sleeper"! like dynamic strike! a nice big longshot to put with orb  promise - i'll be done with the smiley stuff soon lol more wine anyone?  |
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Post by mrdelmarwasmybitch on May 11, 2013 23:46:02 GMT -5
mylute is definitely a horse I am looking at too cait. just not sure if he wants to go that far. he hung against revolutionary at a shorter distance and then again in the derby.
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Post by cait on May 11, 2013 23:53:03 GMT -5
preakness is shorter and rosie knows how to ride pimlico
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Post by Jon on May 12, 2013 0:10:01 GMT -5
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Post by Jon on May 12, 2013 0:12:17 GMT -5
Back to the Preakness - and Rosie: Napravnik To Return To Her Roots For Preakness Stakes Mylute A Go For Middle Jewel; Derby Hero Orb Gallops; Street Spice No Longer A Candidate BALTIMORE, 05-11-13– Moments after learning that trainer Tom Amoss had confirmed that Mylute would be headed to Pimlico Race Course to run in next Saturday’s Preakness Stakes (G1), jockey Rosie Napravnik expressed her excitement on Twitter Saturday morning:“Get your PREAK ON baby I’m coming home ;-) I promise you there is no other jockey who wants to win the #Preakness more than me! MYLUTE” Another tweet quickly followed:“Ok maybe Rosario… But I bet it’s just been added to his list recently haha” While Joel Rosario surely has been very intent on winning the Preakness since guiding Orb to victory in the Kentucky Derby (G1) at Churchill Downs on May 4, winning the Middle Jewel of the Triple Crown has been on Napravnik’s radar since launching her riding career at Pimlico on June 9, 2005. Nearly eight years later, Napravnik will have the opportunity to realize her dream of winning the Preakness aboard Mylute, whom she rode to a solid fifth-place finish behind Orb in the Kentucky Derby. “I’m fired up,” said thoroughbred racing’s most successful woman jockey Saturday morning by phone from Churchill Downs. “The Preakness is just as high up on my list as the Derby to win. It would probably mean the most to me to win at Pimlico, where I started out and have all the original supporters, the people who really got me going. It would mean so much to win that race.” The 25-year-old native of Morristown, N.J. credits Maryland trainers Holly Robinson and Richard Small with helping her get established and supporting her through her four years of riding and dominating at Pimlico and Laurel Park. During the summer of 2004, Napravnik moved to Robinson’s Sparks, Md. farm, where her sister, Jazz, worked as an assistant trainer. She attended nearby Hereford High School during her junior year while galloping horses and learning her trade. On June 9, 2005, Small named the 17-year-old apprentice to ride Ringofdiamonds, and she sent her very first mount right to the lead and into the Pimlico winner’s circle. Saturday morning, Napravnik recalled her first career victory in detail.  “I remember thinking that I was so glad that it was first race of the day and I didn’t have to wait and be anxious all day. Even leading up to it, it was surreal that it was even happening. I remember not even knowing how to read the Racing Form. I had handicapped the race to the best of my ability and I figured I would be somewhere near the front of the pack. I was in the one-hole going two turns, which really isn’t that easy to do at Pimlico,” she recalled. “Luis Garcia who had ridden the filly multiple times and won on her multiple times was also in the race. He came up to me in the paddock and said, ‘If you go to the lead, you will win easy.’ I said, ‘Oh, OK, I’ll just go to the lead,’ but I had no idea what I was doing. And somehow I got the lead from the one-hole going those two turns and we never looked back,” she added. “I pulled my stick through to the left hand because I remember Dickie telling me really early on that that’s what I should do because everybody would be watching and everybody would notice that. So that’s what I did. I pulled my stick through to the left hand. I think I might have only hit her one time. It was all so surreal and unbelievable that I was winning that race. My mom was there. My sister was there. It was so exciting.” She went on to win several riding titles in Maryland, where she led all jockeys in victories in 2006 and 2008, before moving on to ride in New York, Delaware and Louisiana with great success. Napravnik, who has been the leading rider at Fair Grounds for the past three meetings, became the first woman to ride the winner of the Kentucky Oaks (G1) aboard Believe You Can in 2012. Through all of her successes Napravnik has never forgotten her roots. “When I’m riding in the Derby, all through Derby week, and when I won the Oaks last year, I automatically reflect on it and think about Dickie and Holly and starting out,” Napravnik said. “It feels like it was just yesterday to me. They are very special to me. I couldn’t be more proud to come back and ride in the Preakness.” Napravnik is excited to ride an improving horse like Mylute in the Preakness. “He ran an excellent race in the Derby. We got a very wide trip. We followed Orb basically the whole race. That was a big test of his class and his talent and he really came through. He’s a horse that is improving at the right time,” she said. “I think he’s going to move forward a lot off that race. I don’t think it’s something where it took everything out of him and would cause him to regress at all. He’s maturing and has the competitive drive of a really good race horse.” Napravnik will become the third female rider to have a Preakness mount, joining Patti Cooksey (sixth aboard Tajawa in 1985) and Andrea Seefeldt (seventh with Looming in 1994). Amoss was obviously encouraged that Mylute has maintained his form and competitive edge following a mile jog and a two-mile gallop at Churchill Downs Saturday morning. “I talked with Paul Buhlman (of GoldMark) and Mandy Pope (of Whisper Hill) and we discussed how he was doing and how he was training and the decision was made to go to the Preakness,” Amoss said. “He is booked on the plane for Wednesday morning to go to Baltimore.” Amoss, who plans to give Mylute a half-mile workout early Monday morning, is well aware of the task at hand in the Preakness. “We have to find four lengths,” Amoss said referring to Orb’s advantage over Mylute in the Derby. “If Orb runs his race back in the Preakness, he will be hard to beat.” www.pimlico.com/race-info/news/napravnik-return-her-roots-preakness-stakes |
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Post by mrdelmarwasmybitch on May 12, 2013 1:58:08 GMT -5
all i know is this. if mylute decides not to run next Saturday, rosie can come to vctorville and ride me!! she is 10x better looking and at riding then Chantal ever was.
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Post by eliteone on May 12, 2013 6:26:23 GMT -5
As many of you may remember from Elite's Quantum Seminars at ZVG, focusing on riders or a rider is an absolute no no. The measurement of horseflesh is priority. If he /she can get a licence and carry a whip you go with them. How many lost money on Krigger, Stevens and Rosie last week? Just sayin.
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Post by Nostradamus on May 12, 2013 11:13:26 GMT -5
The dean of OSU (Old School University) has been looking over the early entries for the Preakness and reading over their Past Peformances. Very interesting old school thoughts are beginning to reveal themselves to me about who looks like they can win this race. 1. All top finishing horses in K. Derby came from way off the pace except Oxbow who was running only just off lead behind Palace Malice all the way around. Oxbow therefore sustained for the greatest duration of the race the most Quantum horsepower exertion output continuously for the greatest extended duration and did not fade that badly in the end. Out of the derby therefore Oxbow rates number one on my class and horseflesh meter charts. That is just classical old school thinking 101. 2. The pure speed of the Preakness will be Titletown Five. Goldenscents will not be able to hang with him as evidenced by the Derby that proved Goldencents does not have any real class and folded almost immediately. Titletown Five shows in his PP's true speed with class as evidenced by his front running 2nd to Violence by neck in third start at SAR with Orb running 3rd in 45/1, 1:09/3 fractions at 7F. Then blew away a very decent field in next by 9 lengths with very good horse Braedster 2nd. Set the very fast pace in key prep race the La. Derby where everything who came out of that race has been doing good. Then was just off pace in derby trial where there was no way he was going to battle for lead with the Zayat Stables Zee Bros running 45, 1:10 fractions. The Preakness will be his race though to show his speed and endurance to wire this field. It is all set up for him now with an easy prep in the derby trail to add a little more speed and endurance. The speed of speed will prevail in the Preakness - the speed he has been showing in class races and fading in the end will last all the way around in the Preakness - that is classic OSU (Old School) 101 handicapping. Titletown Five First - Oxbow second for a one-two Lucas finish. Any Questions? Class Dismissed!  |
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Post by cait on May 12, 2013 11:22:40 GMT -5
agree t five will go out there - but i think he will be passed by orb, departing, mylute and maybe oxbow - post position will matter but it's a myth re the preakness having tight turns and favoring speed - for anyone not a frontrunner, it's a very tactical race imho
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Post by mrdelmarwasmybitch on May 12, 2013 13:43:19 GMT -5
im not arguing your points of oxbow ran well in the derby, way better then I thought he would. but he was still well beaten and never a threat to win. and for all the squantum and osu theories in the world, heres a real one for you. weird things happen under unusual circumstances. when soeed folds as badly as it did in the derby, it doesn't really matter who folds worse.the pace that developed in ky. will not happen again in the Preakness. amd under normal circumstances, when the real running starts in the Preakness, those front runners will all have more left then they did in ky. and at 100%, oxbow doesn't measure up to the other speeds or closers. titletown I have no opinion on really until I see the pp's and watch his replays, but if he is trained by lukas it is an 80% certainty that he is a throwout. oxbow just happened to run his best race when others didn't due to extenuating circumstances, and still was nowhere near the top 4 at the wire. with a perfect trip scenario, many others will improve. oxbow wont.
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Post by Deleted on May 12, 2013 17:49:57 GMT -5
In contrast to this year’s Kentucky Derby, which initially drew 20 entries and an also-eligible, officials at the Maryland Jockey Club expect the Preakness field to come in below the 14-horse limit.
Eight horses are currently committed to running in the race, with the confirmation of Mylute on Saturday. The Maryland Jockey Club’s Coley Blind said he expects the field to settle at 12, which would be fine with him.
“Twelve great competitors would be better than 14 so-so competitors,” he told the Baltimore Sun. He said he believes that part of the reduced number is due to the deep quality of the field, and particularly the perceived talent of Kentucky Derby winner Orb.
The Preakness post position draw will be held on Wednesday.
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Post by shooter29 on May 12, 2013 18:32:09 GMT -5
I suspected that there would not be many lining up to take on Orb after his emphatic Derby win. A reduced field shows that the other connections are taking a more realistic look at things. Orb will be a prohibitive favorite for sure.
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