Alright everyone. This is your thread to get it done. Pas is the honorary captain so she's in charge. Pete, try and behave bud.

List your top 4 selections in order of preference when you can and we'll take it from there.

Good luck...

My top 4 are:
Pine Island
Round Pond
Fleet Indian
Balletto
Steve

All I know is who I think will win. Pine Island.

Don't have much to add, my top two are Pine Island and Round Pond in that order. I will add that I like Baghdaria a great deal. She has the perfect running style, and if she's good enough should get first jump on Pine Island. I'm not concerned about her poor form in the 'Bama, cominig off a big top and was on a wet track which probably made things even worse. She comes out of that lackluster effort to return to her top in a dominating win in the Indiana Oaks. Where the graphs are concerned, for her to return to pairing her top immediately after the poor effort is an excellent sign that another move forward is imminent. Not to mention she'll probably be north of 30-1.

-BB

Just wanted to bump this up to see if Pas has anything to add. I'll put a ticket together later tonight, post it, and wait for your approval tomorrow.

Thanks again everyone.

Thanks Mike.......

I'll make it easy somewhat because my top pick in the Distaff this year is Pine Island, who seems to be a pretty strong consensus. I also am a big fan of Spun Sugar, always have been. She's much better than her Spinster made her look, has a good chance of grinding them down late, and just might be a fatter price than she's been for a while.

And don't get hysterical anybody, but I'd consider Asi Siempre to round out a tri or super. A solid winner of the Spinster, a very productive prep race for the Distaff, getting ignored by the public because of the turf to poly thing is very tempting indeed. That was her first start on anything but grass, so she certainly hasn't proven that she can't act on the dirt, but her price will reflect the fact that everybody thinks she can't. That will be hard to resist, at least in the bottom rungs of the ladder.

That's my thoughts. Thanks again Mike for inviting me to this party!


Late edit: I just clipped this excerpt from the DRF article on the Distaff. Food for thought?

"Asi Siempre is a bit of a wildcard. She won the Spinster over Polytrack, but has never raced over a conventional dirt surface. Her trainer, Patrick Biancone, said, it is 50-50 whether she will handle it, but if she does, "I think she will win.""

Hmmmmmmmmmmm............

How about this for our 4 horse box. Everyone is high on Pine Island. Steve and Reggie both like Round Pond as well. From there I'd like to use Reggie's bomb pick Baghdaria and Pas' bomb pick Asi Siempre. Try to incorporate the obvious with the not so obvious and go for the huge payout. So the ticket would be the following:

Pine Island
Round Pond
Baghdaria
Asi Siempre

If I get the ok from you guys it'll be a go and I'll post the ticket in Dell's HHH thread.

Looks good team, I think Exceller Fund will be very appreciative of the extra 25k that our tri ticket is bound to bring in

-BB

I'm satisfied with this play.

Let's bring it home Guys!

And thanks again Mike!