A Morning Line You Could Drive A Big Truck Through

Does Mike Battaglia’s line on Big Truck at 50-1 seem out of whack to you?

Here’s one of only two horses in the race who has beaten War Pass, the other Tale of Ekati at 15-1 seems reasonable to me, and Battaglia makes him 50-1 and Anak Nakal who has done nothing this year 30-1? He makes Pyro the third choice at 6-1 and from that I assume he’s throwing his Bluegrass out. Well who was struggling over the poly right next to Pyro and finished just a a neck behind him, yep it was Big Truck. Something about this doesn’t make a lot of sense to me. And don’t forget last fall Tagg was quoted as saying he thought Big Truck was better than both Tale of Ekati and even Funny Cide, Tagg usually doesn’t run them where they don’t belong; I say Big Truck hits the board.

A Well Kept Secret If You Ask Me

I logged into TwinSpires.com this morning to see if there was any progress in the dispute with the horsemen, there isn’t any. But according to TwinsSpires they will be taking bets on the Oaks, Early Times and Derby so all is not lost. They could be doing a better job of communicating this to their customers though; a mass email would be nice.


Blog Coverage

This is the first derby in my lifetime where I can honestly say I spent more time reading the blogs (both mainstream and amateur) than regular news accounts.

Granted there are just too many to read most days, especially the ones that simply regurgitate the news, and maybe I am not being objective since I blog, but with the addition of The Rail, which I think really is the best of the lot, and the DRF blogs and even the Blood Horse blogs, which of the three I like the least, the coverage in the blogs seems to be eclipsing the regular media.

What do you think, are the blogs crowding out the mainstream press?

I am taking a little poll over on the sidebar.