{"id":2324,"date":"2006-05-01T12:36:02","date_gmt":"2006-05-01T12:36:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blacktypebugler.com\/?p=2324"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","slug":"oldbtb_99","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/?p=2324","title":{"rendered":"Interesting Bluegrass Derby Facts &#038; Figures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P align=center><FONT face=Tahoma color=brown size=4><STRONG>Just thought I would put a few interesting Statistics together for the past 5 Bluegrass Derbys<\/STRONG><\/FONT><\/P><P align=left><FONT face=Tahoma color=green size=4>Winners<\/FONT><\/P><UL><LI><DIV align=left><FONT face=Tahoma color=black>2005 &#8211; Anticosti in 2:01.2<\/FONT><\/DIV><\/LI><LI><DIV align=left><FONT face=Tahoma color=black>2004 &#8211; Granhee in 2:01.0<\/FONT><\/DIV><\/LI><LI><DIV align=left><FONT face=Tahoma color=black>2003 &#8211; I Seek U in 2:01.2<\/FONT><\/DIV><\/LI><LI><DIV align=left><FONT face=Tahoma color=black>2002 &#8211; Tower Storm in 2:01.0<\/FONT><\/DIV><\/LI><LI><DIV align=left><FONT face=Tahoma color=black>2001 &#8211; Buda With The Slew in 2:02.4<\/FONT><\/DIV><\/LI><\/UL><P align=left><FONT face=Tahoma color=green size=4>Weeks rest before running in the Derby:<\/FONT><\/P><UL><LI><DIV align=left><FONT face=Tahoma color=black>6 weeks &#8211; Anticosti<\/FONT><\/DIV><\/LI><LI><DIV align=left><FONT face=Tahoma>4 weeks &#8211; other 4<\/FONT><\/DIV><\/LI><\/UL><P align=left><FONT face=Tahoma color=green size=4>No. of Starts as a 3 yo:<\/FONT><\/P><UL><LI><FONT face=Tahoma color=black>3 &#8211; Anticosti<\/FONT><\/LI><LI><FONT face=Tahoma color=black>4 &#8211; I Seek U &#038; Tower Storm<\/FONT><\/LI><LI><FONT face=Tahoma color=black>5 &#8211; Granhee &#038; Buda With The Slew<\/FONT><\/LI><\/UL><P><FONT face=Tahoma color=#008000 size=4>Distance of Last Prep Race:<\/FONT><\/P><UL><LI><FONT face=Tahoma color=black>All raced over 9 furlongs (1 Grade 2 &#8211; I Seek U others Grade 1)<\/FONT><\/LI><\/UL><P><FONT face=Tahoma color=#008000 size=4>Position Finished Last Prep Race:<\/FONT><\/P><UL><LI><FONT face=Tahoma color=black>All finished 1st<\/FONT><\/LI><\/UL><P><FONT face=Tahoma color=#008000 size=4>Time of Last Prep Race:<\/FONT><\/P><UL><LI><FONT face=Tahoma color=black>under 1:48.0 &#8211; 1 Tower Storm (1:47.8)<\/FONT><\/LI><LI><FONT face=Tahoma color=black>between 1:48.0 and 1:48.8 &#8211; 3 I Seek U (1:48.0) Granhee (1:48.2) Anticosti (1:48.4)<\/FONT><\/LI><LI><FONT face=Tahoma color=black>1:49.0 and over &#8211; 1 Buda With The Slew (1:49.2)<\/FONT><\/LI><\/UL><P><FONT face=Tahoma color=green size=4>3 yo Lead Up Race Results:<\/FONT><\/P><UL><LI><FONT face=Tahoma color=black>Undefeated &#8211; 1 Anticosti (3:3-0-0)<\/FONT><\/LI><LI><FONT face=Tahoma color=black>Not out of the money &#8211; 3 I Seek U (4:3-1-0) Tower Storm (4:2-1-1) Granhee (5:1-3-1)<\/FONT><\/LI><LI><FONT face=Tahoma color=black>Other &#8211; 1 Buda With The Slew (5:2-1-1 other start 7th)<\/FONT><\/LI><\/UL><P><FONT face=Tahoma color=green size=4>More Lead Up Race Stats:<\/FONT><\/P><UL><LI><FONT face=Tahoma color=black>Winner Corkscrew Gr1 &#8211; 2 Anticosti (last prep race) Buda With the Slew (2nd last prep race)<\/FONT><\/LI><LI><FONT face=Tahoma color=black>Winner California Derby Gr1 \/ ITM Florida Derby Gr1 &#8211; 2 Granhee Tower Storm<\/FONT><\/LI><\/UL><P><FONT face=Tahoma>I found these statistics to be quite interesting so thought I would share them with the BTB readers.<\/FONT><\/P><P><FONT face=Tahoma>Oh one other stat I didn&#8217;t find quite so interesting was that no Derby winner had ever run in the Sand Castle Derby Gr2. The winner of the Sand Castle Derby ran in all 5 Bluegrass Derbys with the best result a 3rd in 2003 by Wolf of Queensland (the other 4 finished 5th 7th 11th and 11th). Now why didnt I find this particuarly interesting (more like disheartening) &#8230;.. because my entrant in this years Bluegrass Derby <FONT color=green>New Found Cyclone <FONT color=black>(from<\/FONT><FONT color=#000000> my ydbargain stable) <\/FONT><\/FONT><FONT color=black>was this years Sand Castle Derby winner &#8211; <STRONG>ouch!<\/STRONG><\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P><P><FONT face=Tahoma>On looking at these &#8220;facts and figures&#8221; you may like to know what pros and cons I found for my horse (hey we all like looking for any reason why we may have a chance or prepare our excuses for losing in advance)<\/FONT><\/P><P><FONT face=Tahoma><STRONG>Pros for New Found Cyclone:<\/STRONG><\/FONT><\/P><UL><LI><FONT face=Tahoma>ITM all 3yo starts (5:3-1-1)<\/FONT><\/LI><LI><FONT face=Tahoma>2nd Felipe Alou Gr2 followed by Gr2 win over 9f (same as I Seek U)<\/FONT><\/LI><\/UL><P><FONT face=Tahoma><STRONG>Cons for New Found Cyclone:<\/STRONG><\/FONT><\/P><UL><LI><FONT face=Tahoma>Didn&#8217;t win last prep race<\/FONT><\/LI><LI><FONT face=Tahoma>Last prep race was 8.5f not 9f<\/FONT><\/LI><LI><FONT face=Tahoma>only 3 weeks rest since last prep race<\/FONT><\/LI><LI><FONT face=Tahoma>Sand Castle Derby factor<\/FONT><\/LI><\/UL><P><FONT face=Tahoma>Based on the above I for one certainly hope that statistics do lie, hehehe&#8230;.but truth be told I am just really happy to have a runner in this classic SIM race especially as I only bred 4 2yo colts in 2005 (and had 2 of them in the mix New Found Cyclone ranked #18 and Crafty Cyclone ranked #33 but was as high as #18 mid March).<\/FONT><\/P><P><FONT face=Tahoma>Anyway good luck to all who have runners in the Derby and the Oaks this weekend.<\/FONT><\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Statictics never lie &#8230;&#8230;.or Do They?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":468,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/468"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2324\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btb.ehorseracing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}