Bodemeister

zinn21 · 3rd Year Sire Joined: 31 Jan 2005 Posts: 3306

Well he threw my Derby allegiance to Union Rags for a loop. That was a powerful, dominant Arkansas Derby no doubt..

Bast · Posted: Sat Apr 14, 2012 6:36 pm Post subject: Re: Bodemeister

bdw0617 · Posted: Sat Apr 14, 2012 6:37 pm Post subject:

honestly, i wasn't impressed at all. he was the dominate closer in the race if you know what that means. this was a very shitty field and he is a nice horse but it was more of a visual mirage than a powerful performance.

i will say, i don't' think there was much he could have done today to impress me considering the field, but.. i mean i don't think everything that draws off is a super star. the horse got realistically good fractions and no one in the race could even keep up with that. that tells me more about how crappy the field is than it does how good a performance it was by him

secret circle, a horse who looked like he needed a designated driver by the 8th pole he was staggering so bad hit the board. the horse was so tired he went out at least 5 paths in the stretch and he still hit the board.

that tells me more about how crappy the field is then it does how good of a horse he is.

I would not be surprised if he ran good in the derby but with him, take charge indy and hansen all in the same race, he would have to be the reincarnation of the bid to pull that off IMHO.

the most impressive horse to me today was Hansen. he is a gamer and fought tooth and nail on a deep keenland surface after setting really really good fractions.
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bdw0617 · Posted: Sat Apr 14, 2012 6:39 pm Post subject: Re: Bodemeister

Bast · Posted: Sat Apr 14, 2012 6:54 pm Post subject: Re: Bodemeister

bdw0617 · Posted: Sat Apr 14, 2012 7:07 pm Post subject:

I mean. he's a really good horse. but he isn't as good as this race made him look.

now, if he were in the race with say, take charge indy, and dueled with him to the turn into the stretch and drew up with no whip to win by 8 lengths i will declare him a super star. but he did not do that. he took the lead where the only other speed was so worried about getting 9F that they took back and set off the pace, and the horses behind him were so slow that his modest fractions were too much to handle.

it reminds me a lot of bellamy road's Wood win. actually that's exactly what it reminds me of.
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Bast · Posted: Sat Apr 14, 2012 10:37 pm Post subject:

louis finochio · Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2012 9:33 am Post subject:

The class test of a great tb, is when another tb comes next to you, & looks you in the eye, when that happens will BM go on to victory or will he regress. We shall find out in the Derby.
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bdw0617 · Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2012 10:45 am Post subject:

bdw0617 · Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2012 12:39 pm Post subject: Caixa Eletronica

was a half decent horse 2 years ago that wallowed between 50k claiming type races and allowance races at gulfstream, was claimed by T pletch at the end of the gulfstream meet and sent north and has not looked dback. now he has won a million dollar race

the guy who lost him in the claim has to be sick to his stomach.
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Hotwalker · Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2012 3:37 pm Post subject:

This flatters Creative Cause even more, having repelled Bodemesiter in the San Felipe. Of course Bodemeister could be improving by huge leaps, being a less experienced horse.

bdw0617 · Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2012 4:05 pm Post subject:

Bast · Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2012 4:06 pm Post subject:

pfrsue · Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2012 5:56 pm Post subject:

Per the Daily Racing Form website, Bodemeister received a 105 Beyer, Dullahan a 98, and Hansen a 96. Thought that was interesting.

Bast · Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2012 6:13 pm Post subject: