Hard earned 3rd.
Have to comment on Kurt Hoover on this one. I watched the race on TVG, and Kurt Hoover is the analyst today. His comments after the race. The winner,
, if you were really reaching, could have been covered if the route races in his form were forgiven by handicappers.
Taste's Legends, "kind of just picked up the pieces".
Taste's Legend broke well, sat on the hip of the pace setter, headed him at the 5/16ths, dispensed of him at the top of the stretch, dueled with an engaging stalker the length of the stretch, and succumbed in the last 50 yards. The winner,
Rolls Royce Deal, dropped back early, worked his way down to the rail on the backstretch, rode the rail around the far turn, and snuck through in deep stretch to pass tiring horses for the win. If any horse "kind of just picked up the pieces", it was the winner. Jockey Ochoa rode a very savvy race to get that one home.
Hoover is the race analyst for crying out loud. He really should watch the race rather than get glued onto whatever horses he touted, which in this case, were of zero interest throughout.
I see why so many of our board members mute TVG. I'm usually not real critical though I agree they seldom have much to say. But muting it because all the chippy jibber jabber is one thing. Muting it because the race analyst is clueless is another. At least do that part of your job correctly, and we can forgive all the dead time you have to creatively fill. At least do the 2 or 3 minutes that are really your job properly.
Sore loser, I know. If I would have been on the 12, which I wouldn't have caught in a fishing net the size of New Hamphire, I wouldn't have even noticed.