IS THIS THE YEAR?
As Times-Union writer Tim Wilkin wrote today, thirty-one consecutive years, the sport of Thoroughbred horse racing has gotten excited after the first Saturday in May with visions of a Triple Crown winner dancing in our heads.
So, will this be the year? Is Calvin Borel right that Super Saver is the horse he takes all the way or will another like Ice Box get in the way and put off this crowning achievement for another year?
Then come back to the Paulick Report and let us know what you think
Tags: bradford cummings, Calvin Borel, Ice Box, Paulick Report, Tim Wilkin, Times-Union, Triple Crown
May 3rd, 2010 at 7:28 am
Is Super Saver the best in the last 31 years to have a chance at the Triple Crown? Probably not, But, I hope he shocks the world and does it!!, It would be great for the sport and all involved!, Just wish he had a different name, lol…
May 3rd, 2010 at 7:49 am
Super Saver wins the Triple Crown!
May 3rd, 2010 at 8:52 am
Another Triple Crown at long last would be great, but watching Super Saver finish in the Derby, with Calvin going to the whip and Ice Box closing, it looked like he might not have what it takes to win at the Belmont distance. I wouldn’t mind being wrong!!
May 3rd, 2010 at 9:03 am
How can you not jump on the TC bandwagon…at least until Preakness day!
And I do believe Borel has horse sense - if he said the colt is peaking at the right time - who are we to argue?
Until then - we can enjoy the ride and hope for something wonderful.
May 3rd, 2010 at 9:21 am
IMO, Super Saver won because his front runnning style allowed him to get to the rail and relax, while Ice Box and others had to navigate rush hour traffic. I suspect the Belmont won’t present a similar scenario, so I would wager against SS in that race for the above reason alone. Zito has knocked off much better horses in the Belmont than this year’s derby winner. Regardless, this is a great time of year anyway, with the classics, regardless of who wins what. If there is no TC this year, it will happen eventually.
May 3rd, 2010 at 9:39 am
Did anybody notice that Calvin was wearing 2 gloves when he left the paddock and one when he crossed the finish line? Where are the stewards & clerk of scales checking equipment?
May 3rd, 2010 at 10:29 am
Sistah Says:
May 3rd, 2010 at 9:39 am
Did anybody notice that Calvin was wearing 2 gloves when he left the paddock and one when he crossed the finish line? Where are the stewards & clerk of scales checking equipment?
Non issue. May have thrown it to fans
May 3rd, 2010 at 10:48 am
I’d be surprised if he even wins two legs. Sorry to be a wet blanket, but this Derby was almost 2 seconds slower than Mine That Bird under the same conditions. In fact 2 of Super Saver’s 3 wins were in the slop in ploddingly slow times. His only win on dry track was on the Churchill rail. And as most should have figured out by now, Borel is just another jockey off the Churchill rail.
I think more likely is another horse wins the Preakness and Belmont or we have another 3 different horses year.
May 3rd, 2010 at 10:54 am
Hate to say it is an issue, your supposed to carry all equipment from weigh in to weigh out, it’s a rule. He was missing the glove at least half way through the race, so I guess he threw it to a fan entering the far turn?
May 3rd, 2010 at 3:17 pm
Does anyone actually think of Super Saver as a Secretariat, Seattle Slew or Affirmed? I certainly don’t. But then again, this isn’t exactly the greatest crop of three year olds either to have to beat.
May 3rd, 2010 at 6:41 pm
I’d love to see it, of course. But I’d also like Zenyatta to win HOY, and they’d pretty much have to give it to Super Saver if he won the Triple Crown
May 4th, 2010 at 4:20 am
I love to see horse racing and like to bet on horse racing.Zenyatta is one of my favourite list and i also won betting on Zenyatta.
May 4th, 2010 at 6:22 am
Not a shot !!!! There will be no TC this year… love Borel’s positive attitude… but he’s the only one that got a clean trip and they were closing on him…. another 1/16th and he run’s second….
May 4th, 2010 at 6:12 pm
If the likes of Spectacular Bid, Silver Charm, Pleasant Colony, Sunday Silence, and Alysheba couldn’t win the Triple Crown, there is no reason to believe Super Saver can do it. He’s a decent stakes horse, but not Triple Crown material.
Also, consider this: if he DOES win the TC by some miracle, he’ll be retired to stud as soon as they get the carnations off his back.
May 4th, 2010 at 8:30 pm
Winning the TC isn’t about comparisons to the all-time greats who previously achieved that feat but rather it’s about beating the three-year-old competition in any given year. That said, I don’t see Super Saver being good enough to beat the other contenders in this year’s crop in the remaining two legs of the TC. Anything’s possible but it seems highly unlikely that this is the horse who can do it.
He won the Derby because of an excellent ride by Borel and more importantly his wet track form, which was obvious from reading the PP data. That’s why I played him in all of my bets - he was the only proven “mudder” in the field. On a dry track he would have only been included in the bottom rungs of my exotic bets. That’s how I’ll play him in the Preakness unless it rains heavily again.