Pre-Breeder's Cup Results - Friday

After many hours of painstaking handicapping, I've reduced the event that is the Breeder's Cup to an efficient list horses who will win and those who will not. So sure of these picks am I, that I'm including the bets I would be making if the Good Lord and state of Georgia allowed me to participate in such depraved and sinister activities. As a compromise I'll spend no more than $10 a race, aka what the average bum spends daily on the Georgia sanctioned, divinely supported Georgia Lotto. So throw the kids in the car, you're going to the bank. And possibly McDonalds if its on the way.

Filly and Mare Sprint:
Let me say first that these 11 races are stacked as much as any I've ever seen and 90% of the horses running would be the 1st or 2nd choice in any Grade 1 event they entered. That being said, some are better than others. In the F&M Sprint I like the classy filly Dream Rush coming off back to back Grade 1 wins. The undefeated La Traviata, previously trained by the suspended Frenchman Patrick Biancone, to follow in second with the all or nothing mare Maryfield running a close third.

Dream Rush I'm sure of, the others I'm not.
2 $2 exactas with the 3 over the 4 and the 7
Total: $4

And we move to the
Breeder's Cup Juvenile Turf:
How did I miss that the same morons who brought you The Green Monkey also have an animal with a $2.5 million price tag named The Leopard. The Leopard will be soundly beaten by The Horse with a 9 on his saddlecloth named Prussian. This undefeated Billy Mott trained colt won a Grade 3 in his most recent and second ever start. Michael Tabor gets to watch The Leopard come home second, an experience it seems he actually can put a price on, and Michael Maker's Cherokee Triangle comes home third. Not that I feel bad for Tabor - who I havent forgiven for retiring Scat Daddy before his time. Don't need him though because I'm getting 3-1 on Prussian on the morning line.

How sure am I? Not very.
A conservative $5 to win and place on the 9
Total: $14

And we arrive at
The Dirt Mile:
Which might as well be named The Discreet Cat Fun Run. I have three sure fire locks for the weekend and The Cat is one of them. Unfortunately he's everyone elses as well and should be even money by the time he leaves the gate. Gottcha Gold runs second and I'm hoping Corinthian returns to form and comes home third. Let it be known that the 2, Lewis Michael, has the potential to show up to the party like a pimple on prom night and spoil my good time in second. I'm a pouter. Be prepared for this.

Side note: Do you ever feel like the horse that sneaks in late to break up your million dollar trifecta is laughing at you? If you utter the words aloud, "I'm fine as long as I can beat the 4," somone will invariably inform the 4 and your skip in the step jog to the IRS window turns into you being left with a piece of paper whose sole value is as a place to deposit your gum.

I dont think I'll be adding any additions to the house, but
2 $2 exactas with the 1 over the 6 and 8.

I'm fine as long as I can beat the 2.

Friday total: $18

Saturday picks to follow shortly