2008 Preakness Stakes

Did anyone else notice…he’s not even trying!!!!

OH MY GOD! Are we gonna have a Triple Crown Winner???

I am soooooooo excited!  Big Brown totally kicked ass today.  And he wasn’t even trying!!!!

I’m very excited!!  I was actually jumping up and down trying to make sure he ran fast enough.  You never know…it COULD help!  LOL

Time for me to start planning a Belmont party.  Too bad I won’t be up there to see it in person.  Although, I imagine Elmont, New York is gonna be a total madhouse on that day.

Oh…I can’t wait, I can’t wait, I can’t wait!  Big Brown so reminds me of Secretariat.  Could we dare to hope that he can pull off all three of the Triple Crown races?  The anticipation will be tremendous.  The papers will go nuts.  I think something like this, especially with the stories surrounding Big Brown’s team…oh the hope it would bring!  (I’ll go in to the stories when I’m not exhausted beyond description )

Ok, enough for one day, I am so beat it’s not funny.  I’m going to get some sleep

See ya’ll tomorrow!!

:)

I was going to run right in here and write about how exciting that was

then I noticed Eight Belles laying on the track and suddenly it wasn’t so exciting.  My heart goes out to her people, that has got to be the hardest thing to do.  She ran an incredible race, she really had me thinking she was going to take it when she went blasting after Big Brown, and then she suddenly slowed down (at least it looked that way to me).  I’m not sure if the breaks occurred there or after the finish, I just hope she wasn’t in pain for very long.  She had the Champion Spirit she needed to go all the way.

I don’t feel much like writing now, I think I’ll go make dinner and see if Meg calls me.

Later all!

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It’s officially DERBY DAY!!!!!

Are ya excited?  HUH?  HUH?  Well…I AM!!!!!

Told you I was a horse nut.  There is one thing I enforce around here:  I get approximately 6 guaranteed minutes of silence in this house every year.  2 minutes for the running of the Kentucky Derby,  2 minutes for the Preakness and 2 minutes for the Belmont.  Those are approximate.  I know the actual averages and records and for this purpose…2 minutes works just fine.

So…I was searching for TV schedules so I wouldn’t miss the damned race…at some point, the post time changed from around 5:38 to closer to 6:04…of course, this was a while ago but after actually MISSING a freaking race one year…I’m totally paranoid now.  I happened to have found some incredibly awesome videos of past races on YouTube.  Check these out:

SECRETARIAT - 1973 Kentucky Derby
Kentucky Derby 132 - Barbaro (2006)  (ok, this one had me crying…he was such an amazing amazing horse - and I’m NOT linking to his breakdown video cause I just can’t bear to watch Edgar Prado reacting to the situation or Barbaro holding up his leg)
2007 Kentucky Derby - Street Sense  This was such an amazing trip for Street Sense and Calvin Borel - Watch the rail just open up for them as they work their way from the back of the pack to the front position!

There are a ton more and I’m tired, so….I’ll probably look through more tomorrow, but you can always just check out the related videos yourself


Going to dream of Twin Spires and Post Parades…nite!!

:)