Be Like Mike

If you remember back in the 90's there was that Gatorade commerical featuring Michael Jordan, and where they are singing how they wanted to "be like Mike". Of course in that case they where talking about basketball, but in horse racing there is also a Mike. Except this Mike has four legs and runs his hardest.

Big Red Mike beating Hotep and Roan Inish in yesterday's Queen's Plate in front of the Queen of England. This was his jockey Eurico De Silva's second Queen's Plate win in a row (the first since Craig Perret did it in 1992 and 1993 with Alydeed and Peteski, the latter being the Triple Crown winner that year). It was the first Queen's Plate win for his trainer Nicholas Gonzalez.

Unfortanlly Moment of Majesty did not do well in this race. The next leg is the Prince of Wales which is at Fort Erie, this will be a good test for Big Red Mike to see weather or not he's just a poly horse.

Also it's offical, you can now scratch Pro Ride and turf off of Mine That Bird's favorite surfaces. He ran very poorly in yesterday's Firecracker won by Tizdejavu. Informed Decidsion returned to the winners circle and Franny Freud won her race as well. I Want Revenge's return wasn't perfect as he finished third behind Haynesfield in the Suburban.

I'm on vacation right now, so this will be the last post for a week. This does mean no DE Oaks preview, but this year's field is supposed to be Blind Luck, No Such Word, Havre de Grace and a few others. I'm hopeful to get to the track for the DelCap this year, but it's up in the air. Next week's chat will be at the regular time of 7pm.