Paint that Greek!

Winslow Homer, and Ron the Greek won the Holy Bull and Lacomte respectivly. However I was wrong about a few things, 1. Jackson Bend surprised me with his 2nd place finish in the Holy Bull, 2. Citrus Kid is a nice horse, but not Derby material (in my opinon), maybe Belmont if he gets that chance.

Winslow Homer will now face Buddy's Saint, who is #2 on the TC board in the Fountain of Youth. I place Winslow Homer around #7 (Rule is the defacto #6), and Jackson Bend is around #12, with 3rd place finisher William's Kitten around #10 (I'll explain my reasoning next week when the new rankings come out with a top 15 this time around). Ron the Greek has the Silky Sullivian look to him, but I need to see how he does in the Risen Star against what is expected to be better company (maybe Laus Deo and/or Rule will be involved? Niether Tony Dutrow nor Todd Pletcher have strings there, but they could ship in). I will say that there has been some shuffling around, a horse who had been on the bubble will be removed, and horse who I haven't talked about yet will be added to the top five.

Oaks movement, will Quiet Temper will move down on the list after her bomb in the Fair Grounds (hopefully she rebounds in the Silverbulletday), and her stablemate who I think will end up not being as good as her Sassy Image will move into the top five, but not to replace her.

I appologize for not having a post yesterday, if you read my regular blog Yarn Talk then you know why. Just to let you all know that the Weekend Preview post will be going up on Thursday with a very special aniversary post at the same time. The reason being is that Friday is a very important day in the history of horse racing for me personally, it's a certin Horse of the Year's offical fourth birthday and it's the third aniversary of one of horse racing's equine hero's death.